Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself.
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Thinking evil is making evil.
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Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
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To have and to want more that is life.
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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.
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The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.
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Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.
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If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.
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One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief.
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The English are a nation of consummate cant.
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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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Not one of these nobly equipped young men has escaped the restless, exhausting, confusing, debilitating crisis of education. ... He feels that he cannot guide himself, cannot help himself—and then he dives hopelessly into the world of everyday life and daily routine, he is immersed in the most trivial activity possible, and his limbs grow weak and weary.
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We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.
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What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.
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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
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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 last Christian died on a cross.
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The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.
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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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Our institutions are no good any more: on that there is universal agreement. However, it is not their fault but ours. Once we have lost all the instincts out of which institutions grow, we lose institutions altogether because we are no longer good for them.