Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
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Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.
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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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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
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It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.
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What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.
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Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
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What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.
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I am almost equal to a shadow.
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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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A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.
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Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.
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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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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
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In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.
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[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.
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Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
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Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.
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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
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The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' - it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere...
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Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.
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Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.