Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.
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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?
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My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.
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Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.
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The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.
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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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Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
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The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
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Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
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He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.
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Dionysus:Be clever, Ariadne! …You have little ears; you have my ears:Put a clever word in them! -Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? …I am your labyrinth …
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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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I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.
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And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.
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The English are a nation of consummate cant.
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In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.
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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
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Morality in Europe today is herd-morality.
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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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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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Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.
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There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.