Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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 possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.
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A thing can only live through a pious illusion.
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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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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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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
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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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Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
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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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What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.
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Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
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To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
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Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
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This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
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Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.
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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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Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.
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We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.
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One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
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This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
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Plato was a bore.