Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
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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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What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.
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The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.
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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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With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.
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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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Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.
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Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.
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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
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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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Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.
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Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!
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The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.
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Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.
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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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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
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The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.
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Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.
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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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The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
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I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.
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The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.
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Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.