Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.
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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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For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.
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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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I should not believe in a God who does not dance.
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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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Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.
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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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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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Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
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The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.
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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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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
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Better know nothing than half-know many things.
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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
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They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs.
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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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I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.
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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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Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased.
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Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).
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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.