Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.
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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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In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.
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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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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
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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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There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.
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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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Den Andern zum Vorbild. - Wer ein gutes Beispiel geben will, muss seiner Tugend einen Gran Narrheit zusetzen: dann ahmt man nach und erhebt sich zugleich über den Nachgeahmten, - was die Menschen lieben.
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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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However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.
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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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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
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Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas well as by the feeling of an incapacity for it (Min this respect a typical romantic!).... Fundamentally, Carlyle is an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one.
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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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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
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For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.
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Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.
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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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Fear is the mother of morality.
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Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.