Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.
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The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.
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The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
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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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A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.
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Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.
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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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Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.
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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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So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.
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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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Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.
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Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.
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To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
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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 man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.
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I love those who do not know how to live for today.
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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.
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Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.
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At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.
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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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Master-morality and Slave-morality.
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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
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Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.