Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.
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An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
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Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.
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Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
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Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.
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A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?
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In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.
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I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.
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What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?
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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
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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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No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.
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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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When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.
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Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves.
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Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.
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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.
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
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Being silent is something one completely unlearns if, like him, one has been for so long a solitary mole - - -
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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.
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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
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There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
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One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.