Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
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Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
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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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Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.
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I love those who do not know how to live for today.
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People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.
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Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.
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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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Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
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The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
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Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!
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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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Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.
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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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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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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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Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
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There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.
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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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He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.
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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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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.