Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

Energy wasted on negative ends.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became "geniuses" (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

The free man is a warrior.

Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything - and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the productive man a yet higher species.