Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.
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Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.
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The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.
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The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.
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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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The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.
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Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.
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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.
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Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?
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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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[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.
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Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.
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Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.
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Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.
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Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.
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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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We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.
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Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.
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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty
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He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.
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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
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All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).
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We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.