Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge-and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves- how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?
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The possibility has been established for the production of...a master race, the future 'masters of the earth'...made to endure for millennia - a higher kind of men who...employ democratic Europe as their most pliant and supple instrument for getting hold of the destinies of the earth.
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Better know nothing than half-know many things.
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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
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One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!
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Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.
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Great intellects are skeptical.
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Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.
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One never perishes through anybody but oneself.
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Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.
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How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
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'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.
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Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.
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Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.
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Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.
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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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Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.
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A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.
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Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.
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There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.
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The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.
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A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.
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The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.
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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty