Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.
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Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?
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One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!
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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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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
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In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.
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The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!
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We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge-and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves- how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?
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One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."
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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
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So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
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In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.
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The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.
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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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The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.
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But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.
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What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!
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My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
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Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.
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The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.
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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!
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It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.