Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

Love forgives the lover even his lust.

On every parable you ride to every truth.

However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love to lose myself for a while.

Even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom-such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it-those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

Socrates - If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.

What is bad?-All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness?-The feeling that power is increasing-that resistance has been overcome.

The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal".

Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.

My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

History belongs above all to the man... who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.