Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
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Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.
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Einige werden posthum geboren.
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
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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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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 empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.
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Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.
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This is the antinomy: Insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence.
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To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.
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God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?
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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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By losing your goal, You have lost your way.
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It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
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What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.
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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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Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.
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Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness).
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And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.
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Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?
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And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.
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My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.