Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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We are always in our own company.
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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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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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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.
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Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.
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You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.
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In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
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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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As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.
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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
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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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If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.
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Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.
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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
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What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.
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What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.
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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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Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.
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Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.
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From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.
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In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.