Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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The whole disaster was only made possible by the fact that there already existed in the world a similar megalomania, allied to this one in race, to wit, the Jewish.
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Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.
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If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.
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I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.
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Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
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Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.
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Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
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In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
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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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It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.
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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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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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Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.
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Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.
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To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.
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I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.
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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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One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
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No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.
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Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
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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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As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.