Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.
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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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Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?
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I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.
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Plato was a bore.
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Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.
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Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.
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Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.
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The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence - here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for 'laws.'
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You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.
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Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.
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Thinking evil is making evil.
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One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
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Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.
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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.
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Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.
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I am almost equal to a shadow.
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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
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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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Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.
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I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.
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There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.
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... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered.
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Do you believe then that the sciences would have arisen and grown up if the sorcerers, alchemists, astrologers and witches had not been their forerunners; those who, with their promisings and foreshadowings, had first to create a thirst, a hunger, and a taste for hidden and forbidden powers?