Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.
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The real question is: How much truth can I stand?
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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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The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.
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The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
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Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty - he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world - alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.
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Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.
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Man is more ape than many of the apes.
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Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
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Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.
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One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
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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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What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.
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Art is the great stimulus to life.
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As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.
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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.
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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 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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All great artists and thinkers are great workers.
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The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.
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There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.