Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.
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In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.
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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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With all great deceivers there is a noteworthy occurrence to which they owe their power. In the actual act of deception... they are overcome by belief in themselves. It is this which then speaks so miraculously and compellingly to those who surround them.
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What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.
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Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.
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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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The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!
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He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)
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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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Better know nothing than half-know many things.
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He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.
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What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.
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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 the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.
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Everything good, fine or great they do is first of all an argument against the skeptic inside them.
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The pure soul is a pure lie.
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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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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
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Whoever wishes to justify [Philosophy] must show … to what ends a healthy culture uses and has used philosophy.
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Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
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Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.
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How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
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Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.