Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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.
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty - I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.
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Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.
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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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Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
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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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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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Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!
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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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If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.
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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.
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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
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In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.
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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
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What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.
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You shall become the person you are.
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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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Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.
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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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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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One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.