Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
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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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The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
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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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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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The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.
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On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!
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Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
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A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.
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Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.
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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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A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.
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Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.
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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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Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.
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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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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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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.
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Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
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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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Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.