Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.
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...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.
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I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
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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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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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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 are always in our own company.
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Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.
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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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Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.
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If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.
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Become who you are!
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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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Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
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I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
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Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.
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The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
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Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
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To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
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No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.
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I am almost equal to a shadow.
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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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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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A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.