Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

My soul is calm and bright as the morning mountains. But they believe I am cold, that I jeer, that I deal in terrible jests. And now they look at me and laugh, and in laughing they hate me too. There is ice in their laughter.

today, as soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual Will to Power, the will to creation of the world, the will to the causa prima.

For in seeing the sufferer suffering—thereof was I ashamed on account of his shame; and in helping him, sorely did I wound his pride. Great obligations do not make grateful, but revengeful;

Para o homem que tem uma convicção, ela é a sua espinha dorsal.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.