Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
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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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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
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Wie? ist der Mensch nur ein Fehlgriff Gottes? Oder Gott nur ein Fehlgriff des Menschen?
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We are all afraid of the truth.
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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
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I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely-that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come.
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Master-morality and Slave-morality.
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In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.
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He who does not lie does not know what truth is.
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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
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Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight.
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However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.
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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.
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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!
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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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What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.
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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
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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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I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.