Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes - Page 5

Your educators can only be your liberators.

All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.

Quiconque lutte contre des monstres devrait prendre garde, dans le combat, à ne pas devenir monstre lui-même. Et quant à celui qui scrute le fond de l'abysse, l'abysse le scrute à son tour.

Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.

Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!

Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the
spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.

Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.

Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?
Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so tender! We are all of us pretty fine asses and asseses of burden!

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.

Around the hero, everything becomes a tragedy.
Around God, everything becomes what? a world?

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.