Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.
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Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.
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The lie is a condition of life.
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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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Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.
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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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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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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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The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
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To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
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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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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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All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.
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One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
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Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.
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Humility has the toughest hide.
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Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
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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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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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Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts.
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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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Master-morality and Slave-morality.