Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.
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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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A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.
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Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.
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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
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As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.
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For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.
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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.
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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.
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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much .
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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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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
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Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.
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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
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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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Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.
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A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.
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I have forgotten my umbrella.
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Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.
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All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.