Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.
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A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.
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They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
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The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.
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Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.
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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
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For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.
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Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.
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You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!
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All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.
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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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I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.
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Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.
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Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
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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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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.
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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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That faith makes blessed under certain circumstances, that blessedness does not make of a fixed idea a true idea, that faith moves no mountains but puts mountains where there are none: a quick walk through a madhouse enlightens one sufficiently about this.
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
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As though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!
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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.