Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Man büßt es theuer, unsterblich zu sein: man stirbt dafür mehrere Male bei Lebzeiten.
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Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?
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A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?
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Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.
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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.
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Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
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The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom.
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It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.
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Everything good, fine or great they do is first of all an argument against the skeptic inside them.
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Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.
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A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.
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Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.
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My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.
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Existence begins in every instant.
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Wie? ist der Mensch nur ein Fehlgriff Gottes? Oder Gott nur ein Fehlgriff des Menschen?
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
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Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.
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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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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
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The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not.
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If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?
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The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.
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It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.