Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.
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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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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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In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.
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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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Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.
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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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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
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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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Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.
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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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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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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
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Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.
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Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.
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In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.
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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.
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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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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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We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
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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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Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.