Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.
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You shall become the person you are.
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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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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
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Woman was God's second mistake.
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The good generally displeases us when it is beyond our ken.
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Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.
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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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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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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
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Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.
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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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Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
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Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.
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It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
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What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
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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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We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
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What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.
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Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.
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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
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In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.
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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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A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.