Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
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If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.
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The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.
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There they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.
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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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But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.
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In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.
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Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.
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One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.
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Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.
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Every one who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
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Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
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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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Woman was God's second mistake.
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What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.
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The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.
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The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!
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Great intellects are skeptical.
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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
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We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.
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Was sagt dein Gewissen? - 'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'
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Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.