Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
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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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There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.
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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
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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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The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
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All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.
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Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.
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The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.
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What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.
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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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As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.
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Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.
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Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
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You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!
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Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.
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Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.
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Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers.
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We can destroy only as creators.
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Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!