Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
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You shall become the person you are.
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He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!
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A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.
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The good displeases us when we are not up to it.
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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.
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Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
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Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.
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Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.
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The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.
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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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The love of power is the demon of mankind.
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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.
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The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.
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A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.
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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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Fear is the mother of morality.
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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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The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
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Die Leugner des Zufalls. - 'Kein Sieger glaubt an den Zufall.'
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Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.
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"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?
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To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.
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The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.