Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes - Page 10

Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people for each other gives way to a new desire and greed, a shared higher thirst for an ideal above them.
But who knows such love? who has experienced it?
Its true name is friendship

The Good Man
Better an enmity from one block
than friendship held together by glue.

One in three all friends are:
Brothers in distress,
equals facing rivals,
free men - facing death!

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe.
It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

And just look at these men: their eye saith it - they know nothing better on earth than to be with a woman.
Filth is at the bottom of their souls; and alas! If their filth hath spirit in it!

The sum of the inner movements which a man finds easy and as a consequence performs gracefully and with pleasure, one calls his soul; if these inner movements are plainly difficult and an effort for him, he is considered soulless.

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

- very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions - ? Rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions

He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed.

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority- where he may forget "men who are the rule," as their exception;- exclusive only of the case in which he is pushed straight to such men by a still stronger instinct, as a discerner in the great and exceptional sense.

The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals.