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Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The hour-hand of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every word is a prejudice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Darum hat Lessing, der ehrlichste theoretische Mensch, es auszusprechen gewagt, dass ihm mehr am Suchen der Wahrheit als an ihr selbst gelegen sei...
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
