Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!
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For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
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Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.
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Gegen die Langeweile kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
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I have somehow something like 'influence' … In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence … my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra … has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.
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Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.
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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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This is the antinomy: Insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence.
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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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My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.
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Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.
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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
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It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
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The hour-hand of life.
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Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness).
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Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.
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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
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I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.
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Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
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What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.
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The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman.