Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
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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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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
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One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
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All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.
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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
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The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.
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I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.
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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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Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.
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How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.
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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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In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.
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It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.
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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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If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.
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Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love so that it may be removed once and for all from the wicked game of change: for love dreads change even more than annihilation.
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Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.
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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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Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.
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The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.
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The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.
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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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Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.