Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.
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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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The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!
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In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.
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This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.
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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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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
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Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live.
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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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Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.
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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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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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Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.
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Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.
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It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.
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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
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Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.
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Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
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We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?
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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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... 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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For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
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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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The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.