Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
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I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.
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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
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In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
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We obtain the concept, as we do the form, by overlooking what is individual and actual; whereas nature is acquainted with no forms and no concepts, and likewise with no species, but only with an X which remains inaccessible and undefinable for us.
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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.
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My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
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I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.
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There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.
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The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.
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Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.
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This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.
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He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.
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It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.
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Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.
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And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.
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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
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We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.
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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
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One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.