Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!
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Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.
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The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.
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I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.
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What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.
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The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.
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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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Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.
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Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?
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Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.
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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
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You shall become the person you are.
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The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.
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As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.
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If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants.
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The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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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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It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.
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Great intellects are skeptical.
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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
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And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.