Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One has attained to mastery when one neither goes wrong nor hesitates in the performance.
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Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!
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Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.
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The whole disaster was only made possible by the fact that there already existed in the world a similar megalomania, allied to this one in race, to wit, the Jewish.
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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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We are always in our own company.
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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
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What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.
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It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.
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Um aber unsere Klassiker so falsch beurteilen und so beschimpfend ehren zu können, muß man sie gar nicht mehr kennen: und dies ist die allgemeine Tatsache. Denn sonst müßte man wissen, daß es nur eine Art gibt, sie zu ehren, nämlich dadurch, daß man fortfährt, in ihrem Geiste und mit ihrem Mute zu suchen, und dabei nicht müde wird.
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No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.
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Those who create are hard of heart.
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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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What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.
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Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.
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If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.
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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
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… was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker
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I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.
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Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.
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Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
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Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.
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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.