Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell':
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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
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I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, I would rather be a satyr than a saint.
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Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.
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You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!
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Yes, life is a woman!
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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 world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.
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The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman.
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One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.
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One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.
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What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.
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You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!
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In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.
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The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not.
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Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.
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The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom.
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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
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Whoever wishes to justify [Philosophy] must show … to what ends a healthy culture uses and has used philosophy.
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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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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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I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
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In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.