Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love so that it may be removed once and for all from the wicked game of change: for love dreads change even more than annihilation.
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Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.
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Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.
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One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.
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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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In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
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Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.
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Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.
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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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Freier Wille ohne Fatum ist ebenso wenig denkbar, wie Geist ohne Reelles, Gutes ohne Böses.
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As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.
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Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.
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I am almost equal to a shadow.
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Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.
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Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.
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If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.
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Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.
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How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.
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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
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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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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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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
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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 have somehow something like 'influence' … In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence … my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra … has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.