Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.

It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm.

Master-morality and Slave-morality.

Some men are born posthumously.

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.