Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.
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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
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Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
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Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.
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Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.
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The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.
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Gott ist tot! aber so wie die Art der Menschen ist, wird es vielleicht noch Jahrtausende lang Höhlen geben, in denen man seinen Schatten zeigt. - Und wir - Wir müssen auch noch seinen Schatten besiegen.
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Every one who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
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Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
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Those who create are hard of heart.
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.
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Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.
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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.
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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.
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Fear is the mother of morality.
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All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.
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Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.
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If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.
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The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.
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I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.
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However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.
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I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.
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I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.
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What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.