Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
-
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.
-
Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
-
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
-
The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.
-
Dionysus:Be clever, Ariadne! …You have little ears; you have my ears:Put a clever word in them! -Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? …I am your labyrinth …
-
I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
-
I have forgotten my umbrella.
-
One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!
-
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
-
When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.
-
He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.
-
Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
-
Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.
-
Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.
-
With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.
-
His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.
-
I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.
-
Every profound spirit needs a mask.
-
In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.
-
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.
-
We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.
-
The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.
-
Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.
-
What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.