Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
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Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.
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I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.
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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
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Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
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Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.
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What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.
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After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.
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Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.
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Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.
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You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.
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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
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Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.
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The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.
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There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.
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Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
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We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.
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Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.
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He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.