Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.
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One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
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Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.
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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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Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.
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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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On the heights it is warmer than people in the valleys suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
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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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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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Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.
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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.
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Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
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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?
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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.
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It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!
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What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.
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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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Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!
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The final reward of the dead - to die no more.
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Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.