Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
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The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
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Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.
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One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
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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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Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.
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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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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.
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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.
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All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.
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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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Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
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To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
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Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.
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From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?
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Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.
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Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
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What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.
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Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.
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Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.
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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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Love is not consolation. It is light.
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People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.
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He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.