Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.
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Gegen die Langeweile kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
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We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.
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There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
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Man büßt es theuer, unsterblich zu sein: man stirbt dafür mehrere Male bei Lebzeiten.
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Daß man wird, was man ist, setzt voraus, daß man nicht im entferntesten ahnt, was man ist.
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Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
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Every word is a prejudice.
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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
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This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
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One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.
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The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
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One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.
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Die Leugner des Zufalls. - 'Kein Sieger glaubt an den Zufall.'
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Love, too, has to be learned.
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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
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The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
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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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In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.
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If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.
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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.