Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed - it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

Shackled heart, free spirit. Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness-they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

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.

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.