Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.
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Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.
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You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!
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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
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The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.
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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
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We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.
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We ought to face our destiny with courage.
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He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
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There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.
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A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.
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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
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That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.
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You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!
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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 best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
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We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.
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The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.
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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
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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.