Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

Modern marriage has lost its meaning-consequently it is being abolished.

Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.

He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings-this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this: How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

A man far often appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering: that is great, that belongs to greatness.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself-in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity-is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

Remorse. Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.