Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Humility has the toughest hide.
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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
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Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
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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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The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
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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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Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.
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Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
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Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.
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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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Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts.
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Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
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That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.
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How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy.
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Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.
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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.
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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
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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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The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.
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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
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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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Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.