Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.
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All words are prejudices.
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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 tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.
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There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
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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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But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?
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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.
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When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.
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Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.
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In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.
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Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.
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Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
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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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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
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Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.
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Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.
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The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.
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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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God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?
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Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.
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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.