Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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A thought comes when it will, not when I will.
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If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!
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We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.
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Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
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Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.
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Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.
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That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.
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Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.
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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
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In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
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Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.
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He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.
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The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.
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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.
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If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved.
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He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
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Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
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Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
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From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.
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If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother – love there is a good deal of curiosity.
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The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.