Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves. Do you want to be the ebb of that great tide, and revert back to the beast rather than surpass mankind? What is the ape to a man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just so shall a man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame. You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

if you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. morals have aesthetic criteria.

Man vergibt seinem Lehrer schlecht, wenn man immer nur der Schüler bleibt. (One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.)

You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm.

Men need play & danger. Civilization gives them work and safety.

Eu sou vários! Há multidões em mim. Na mesa de minha alma sentam-se muitos, e eu sou todos eles. Há um velho, uma criança, um sábio, um tolo. Você nunca saberá com quem está sentado ou quanto tempo permanecerá com cada um de mim. Mas prometo que, se nos sentarmos à mesa, nesse ritual sagrado eu lhe entregarei ao menos um dos tantos que sou, e correrei os riscos de estarmos juntos no mesmo plano.

The beast lives unhistorically; for it 'goes into' the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

And indeed, just think: in many ways, body and soul, I have been more a battlefield than a human being.

Benditos sean los olvidadizos pues superan, incluso, sus propios errores

Each individual represents the whole course of Evolution and he is not, as morals teach, something that begins at his birth.

Our age knows better.... What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent—it is indecent to be a Christian today.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men.

Valuing is creating: hear it, you creators! Valuing itself is the treasure and jewel of all valued things.

Among the things that can drive a thinker to despair is the knowledge that the illogical is necessary for man and that much good comes from it.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

What is it that I especially find utterly unendurable? That I cannot cope with, that makes me choke and faint? Bad air! Bad air! The approach of some ill-constituted thing; that I have to smell the entrails of some ill-constituted soul!

Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

Why did you live so long in the swamp that you yourself had to become a frog and a toad?

Thinking of yourself as a destiny, not wanting to be 'other' than you are -that is under such circumstances the highest wisdom.

Affirmation of life even in its strangest and sternest problems; the will to life rejoicing in its own inexhaustibility through the sacrifice of its highest types - that is what I call dionysian

It is to be hoped, indeed, that LANGUAGE, here as elsewhere, will not get over its awkwardness, and that it will continue to talk of opposites where there are only degrees and many refinements of gradation

When a human being resists his whole age and stops it at the gate to demand an accounting, this must have influence.

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.