Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he judges 'what harms me is harmful in itself', he knows himself to be that which in general accords honour to things, he creates values.
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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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I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.
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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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This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.
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Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.
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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 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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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
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What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
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Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.
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Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.
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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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My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.
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When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.
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Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
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Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.
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Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!
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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
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With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.
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Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.