Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.

To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas! how have I still - inclination? Have I-still a goal? A haven towards which MY sail is set?A good wind? Ah, he only who knoweth WHITHER he saileth, knoweth what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.What still remaineth to me? A heart weary and flippant; and unstable will; fluttering wings; a broken backbone.This seeking for MY home: O Zarathustra, dost thou know that this seeking hath been MY home-sickening; it eateth me up.

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

Great intellects are skeptical.

Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?

Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!