Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
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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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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
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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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One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.
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Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).
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You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!
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The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.
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You shall become the person you are.
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One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
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Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
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How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
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If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion.
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State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people’.
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The good generally displeases us when it is beyond our ken.
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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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As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.
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I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.
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For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.
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After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.
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He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)
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From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.
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There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.