Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.
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What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.
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When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.
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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
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If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?
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We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.
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We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.
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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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Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him!
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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
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In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.
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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
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A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .
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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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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
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I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.
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Whatever has value in our world now does not have value in itself, according to its nature - nature is always value-less, but has been given value at some time, as a present - and it was we who gave and bestowed it.
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
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The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.
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The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?
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I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.
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Vorrecht der Grösse. - Es ist das Vorrecht der Grösse, mit geringen Gaben hoch zu beglücken.
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Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.
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Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.