Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Yes, life is a woman!
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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
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All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.
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Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.
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On every parable you ride to every truth.
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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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The doctrine of equality! … But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice … 'Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal' - that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, 'never make the unequal equal'.
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Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.
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To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.
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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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We are always in our own company.
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Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.
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Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.
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As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.
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Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.
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The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.
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Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
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A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.
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In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.
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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
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The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell':
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Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.
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Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.