Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
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The English are a nation of consummate cant.
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For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.
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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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There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
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If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.
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I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.
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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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And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!
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...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.
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Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.
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One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.
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Daß man wird, was man ist, setzt voraus, daß man nicht im entferntesten ahnt, was man ist.
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Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.
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To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
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Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.
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Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.
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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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There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.
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It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.
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Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?
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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.
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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
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Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.