Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.
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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
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How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.
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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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… was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker
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"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?
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It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
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The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.
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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
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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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Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.
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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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The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.
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Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.
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Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
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Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.
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Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
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Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
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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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What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.
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I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
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And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.
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I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?