Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.
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To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.
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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
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Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.
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Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
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I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
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The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.
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With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.
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The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
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In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.
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If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion.
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All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
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You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?
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I should not believe in a God who does not dance.
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They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
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Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!
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Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.
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Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.
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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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Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
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You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!
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Vorrecht der Grösse. - Es ist das Vorrecht der Grösse, mit geringen Gaben hoch zu beglücken.
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One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.