Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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All great artists and thinkers are great workers.
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Im Gebirge der Wahrheit kletterst du nie umsonst: Entweder du kommst schon heute weiter hinauf oder übst deine Kräfte, um morgen höher steigen zu können.
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[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.
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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.
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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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What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.
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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.
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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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… was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker
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The venerability, reliability, and utility of truth is something which a person demonstrates for himself from the contrast with the liar, whom no one trusts and everyone excludes. As a 'rational' being, he now places his behavior under the control of abstractions. He will no longer tolerate being carried away by sudden impressions, by intuitions.
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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
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Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.
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From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.
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Morality in Europe today is herd-morality.
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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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And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
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You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking.
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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
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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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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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When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.