Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
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Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.
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What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.
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Fear is the mother of morality.
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Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.
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He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.
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The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.
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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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We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.
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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
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Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
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… was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker
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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
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It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.
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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
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To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
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With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.
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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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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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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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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
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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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Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.
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A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?