Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
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You shall become the person you are.
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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
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We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
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The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
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Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.
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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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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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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
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In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.
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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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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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That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.
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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
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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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Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
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Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
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When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.
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Woman was God's second mistake.
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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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In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search.