Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
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What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.
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I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.
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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
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What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.
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When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.
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With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving
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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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In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.
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Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
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Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.
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Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.
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Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.
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The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.
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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 most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.
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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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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
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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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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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Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
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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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He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.