Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

To learn to see - to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

Every acquisition, every step forward in knowledge is the result of courage, of severity toward oneself, of cleanliness with respect to oneself.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.

A vocation is the backbone of life.

What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.

If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts.

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

To the mean all becomes mean.

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

Man is something to be surpassed.

I am one thing, my writings are another.

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people, but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

The good displeases us when we are not up to it.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it-all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary-but love it.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen; for whoever has not two-thirds of his day for himself is a slave.

One is punished best for one's virtues.