Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
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Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.
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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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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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This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
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Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased.
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The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.
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In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.
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In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.
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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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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
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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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Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions … I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.
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For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.
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I no longer want to walk on worn soles.
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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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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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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
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This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.
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Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.
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The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.