Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

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.

I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent.

To live alone one must be a beast or a God, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

After Buddha was dead, people showed his shadow for centuries afterwards in a cave - an immense frightful shadow.

Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return; that he gave up in order to have more.

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.