Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.
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Whatever has value in our world now does not have value in itself, according to its nature - nature is always value-less, but has been given value at some time, as a present - and it was we who gave and bestowed it.
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Man büßt es theuer, unsterblich zu sein: man stirbt dafür mehrere Male bei Lebzeiten.
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One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
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We can destroy only as creators.
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Art is the great stimulus to life.
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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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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.
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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.
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The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.
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Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
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Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
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The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.
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What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.
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Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.
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About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.
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The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.
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Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
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God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.
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There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.
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Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
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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.