Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
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The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.
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The possibility has been established for the production of...a master race, the future 'masters of the earth'...made to endure for millennia - a higher kind of men who...employ democratic Europe as their most pliant and supple instrument for getting hold of the destinies of the earth.
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"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?
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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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He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.
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Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.
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It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
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If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
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What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.
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Better know nothing than half-know many things.
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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.
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We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.
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I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.
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Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers.
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Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.
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Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.
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I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.
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We can destroy only as creators.
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The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
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Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
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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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It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.
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In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.