Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
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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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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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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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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.
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You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.
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Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.
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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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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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Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.
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Master-morality and Slave-morality.
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He who does not lie does not know what truth is.
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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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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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It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.
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Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
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If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.
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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.
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Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).
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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.
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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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We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.
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Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.