Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.
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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
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Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.
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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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What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.
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The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' - it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere...
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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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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
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Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
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In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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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!
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A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.
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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.
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Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.
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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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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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To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
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On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
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Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.
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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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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.
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Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.
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What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.