Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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What follows, then? That one had better put on gloves before reading the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it very advisable. One would as little choose early Christians for companions as Polish Jews: not that one need seek out an objection to them - neither has a pleasant smell.
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What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.
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Wir haben uns über unser Dasein vor uns selbst zu verantworten; folglich wollen wir auch die wirklichen Steuermänner dieses Daseins abgeben und nicht zulassen, daß unsre Existenz einer gedankenlosen Zufälligkeit gleiche.
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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
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Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.
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Only fool! Only poet!Merely speaking colorfully,From fools' masks shouting colorfully,Climbing about on deceptive word-bridges,On misleading rainbows,Between false heavensRambling, lurking -Only fool! Only poet!
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What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?
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What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.
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We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.
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I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.
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A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.
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It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.
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We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.
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I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.
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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.
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Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
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We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.
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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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The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.
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THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.
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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.