Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
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All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.
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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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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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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
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How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.
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Man is more ape than many of the apes.
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Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!
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A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.
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Become who you are!
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I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.
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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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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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When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.
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I am almost equal to a shadow.
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Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.
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Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.
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Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
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From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.
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We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.
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If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.
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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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Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.
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Those who create are hard of heart.