Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
-
I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.
-
The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
-
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
-
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.
-
And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
-
One has to know the size of one's stomach.
-
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
-
The final reward of the dead - to die no more.
-
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.
-
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
-
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!
-
I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.
-
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.
-
Every word is a prejudice.
-
Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.
-
Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.
-
One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
-
Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.
-
Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
-
Master-morality and Slave-morality.
-
It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.
-
Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
-
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.
-
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?