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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That faith makes blessed under certain circumstances, that blessedness does not make of a fixed idea a true idea, that faith moves no mountains but puts mountains where there are none: a quick walk through a madhouse enlightens one sufficiently about this.
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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
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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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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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Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.
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The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.
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He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.
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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
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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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Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions … I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.
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It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.
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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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When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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Vorrecht der Grösse. - Es ist das Vorrecht der Grösse, mit geringen Gaben hoch zu beglücken.
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The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.
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Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.
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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
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Fear is the mother of morality.
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Man büßt es theuer, unsterblich zu sein: man stirbt dafür mehrere Male bei Lebzeiten.
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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.