Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.
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School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.
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After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.
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Das Empörende an einer individuellen Lebensart. - Alle sehr individuellen Maassregeln des Lebens bringen die Menschen gegen Den, der sie ergreift, auf; sie fühlen sich durch die aussergewöhnliche Behandlung, welche jener sich angedeihen lässt, erniedrigt, als gewöhnliche Wesen.
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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
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I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.
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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
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The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
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All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
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Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.
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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
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I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
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At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.
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Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.
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One never perishes through anybody but oneself.
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The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.
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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
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The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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What is it that you love in others? – My hopes.
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Pain makes hens and poets cackle.
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The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.