Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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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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Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
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In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty
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But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!
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We can destroy only as creators.
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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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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
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As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.
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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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Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
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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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Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty - he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world - alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.
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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.
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As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.
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Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!
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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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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
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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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Es gibt kein öderes und widrigeres Geschöpf in der Natur als den Menschen, welcher seinem Genius ausgewichen ist und nun nach rechts und nach links, nach rückwärts und überallhin schielt. Man darf einen solchen Menschen zuletzt gar nicht mehr angreifen, denn er ist ganz Außenseite ohne Kern, ein anbrüchiges, gemaltes, aufgebauschtes Gewand.
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The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.