Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.
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Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.
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In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.
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Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.
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It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.
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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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The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence - here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for 'laws.'
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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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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
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Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.
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Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.
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Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.
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Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.
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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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And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.
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Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.
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Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.
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If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.
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Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.
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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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In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.
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Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?
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Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.
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The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace.