Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.
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We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!
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Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
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The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.
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We are all afraid of the truth.
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
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The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.
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The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.
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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
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No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.
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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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I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.
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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
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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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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
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One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
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The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.
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Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.
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If a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.
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Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.
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But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.
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You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking.
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All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.
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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.