Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.
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Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.
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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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This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
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Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.
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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
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Plato was a bore.
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Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.
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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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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.
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One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
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The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.
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Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.
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What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.
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Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.
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You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.
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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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I love those who do not know how to live for today.
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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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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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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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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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Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.