Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.
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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
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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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Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
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There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
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For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.
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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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Master-morality and Slave-morality.
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Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.
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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 certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.
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Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.
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One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
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It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?
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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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It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.
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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.
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Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.
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He who does not lie does not know what truth is.
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Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!