Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
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Every profound spirit needs a mask.
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Better know nothing than half-know many things.
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How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
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All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.
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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 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.
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The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.
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Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.
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In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.
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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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What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.
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The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.
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Gott ist tot! aber so wie die Art der Menschen ist, wird es vielleicht noch Jahrtausende lang Höhlen geben, in denen man seinen Schatten zeigt. - Und wir - Wir müssen auch noch seinen Schatten besiegen.
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When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.
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Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.
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I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.
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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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Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
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One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.
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Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.
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He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.
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Schatten in der Flamme. - Die Flamme ist sich selber nicht so hell, als den Anderen, denen sie leuchtet: so auch der Weise.
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There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.