Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.
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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.
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The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.
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Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
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It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.
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Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.
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How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.
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Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.
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In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.
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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.
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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
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He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.
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There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.
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How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!
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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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About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.
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Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?
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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
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As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.
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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.
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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
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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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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.
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Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.