Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.
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A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .
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You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.
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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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The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.
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We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
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Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
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Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.
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Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.
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Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions … I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.
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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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Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
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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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Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.
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Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
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Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.
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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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Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.
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Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.
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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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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.