Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
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I no longer want to walk on worn soles.
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Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.
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Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.
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Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
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In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.
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One has attained to mastery when one neither goes wrong nor hesitates in the performance.
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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
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'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.
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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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If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved.
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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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When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.
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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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Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.
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It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.
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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
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We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.
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Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.
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If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
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Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.
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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.