Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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 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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No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.
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Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
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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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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
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As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.
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A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.
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It is the good war that hallows every cause.
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Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.
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We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.
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Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
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God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!
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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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A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.
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Was sagt dein Gewissen? - 'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'
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We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.
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We can destroy only as creators.
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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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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
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What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they..
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One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.