Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
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Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.
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We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.
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Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.
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If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
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Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.
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You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.
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And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!
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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
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Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.
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I and me are always too deeply in conversation.
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Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.
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A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
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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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The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.
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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
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After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
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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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Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.
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The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.
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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
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What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent.