Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.
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Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
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The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.
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Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.
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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
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A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.
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How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.
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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
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
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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 unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.
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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.
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Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.
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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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The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.
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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.
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Fear is the mother of morality.
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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.
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We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
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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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The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.