Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.
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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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When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.
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Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.
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The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.
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What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.
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I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.
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Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.
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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
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What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.
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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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We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
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Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
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Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.
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Man büßt es theuer, unsterblich zu sein: man stirbt dafür mehrere Male bei Lebzeiten.
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Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.
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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
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A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.
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Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
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One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
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He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.
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How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?
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What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.