Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Qué es lo malo? Todo lo que proviene de la debilidad.

As the will to truth thus gains self-consciousness ? there can be no doubt that morality will gradually perish: this is the great spectacle in a hundred acts reserved for the next two centuries in Europe ? the most terrible, most questionable, and perhaps also the most hopeful of spectacles.

What do you believe in? — In this: that the weight of all things must be determined anew

Men of profound thought appear to themselves in intercourse with others like comedians, for in order to be understood they must always simulate superficiality.

May heaven have mercy on the European intellect if one wanted to subtract the Jewish intellect from it.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

What makes one heroic?— Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

From the practice of wise men.—To become wise, one must wish to have certain experiences and run, as it were, into their gaping jaws. This, of course, is very dangerous; many a wise guy has been swallowed. 301

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual-and he does not call it poison.

Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is.

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

WHEN Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But finally he had a change of heart - and rising one morning with the dawn, he went before the sun, and spoke thus to it:

Not through enmity does enmity come to an end; enmity comes to an end through friendship.

We are conducting an experiment with truth! Perhaps mankind will perish because of it! Fine!

Os homens de profunda tristeza denunciam-se quando são felizes: têm um modo de pegar na felicidade como se quisessem esmagá-la e sufocá-la, por ciúme - ah, sabem bem de mais que lhes foge!

Die Dummheit der Guten ist unergründlich klug.

The human being first put values into things, in order to preserve itself—it created a meaning for things, a human's meaning! Therefore it calls itself 'human'—that is: the evaluator.

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don't throw away the best of yourself.

But one day solitude will make you weary, one day your pride will buckle and your courage gnash its teeth. One day you will cry, 'I am alone!

He who does not find greatness in God finds it nowhere. He must either deny it or create it.

Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all Gods and backworlds.

Humanity does not strive for happiness; only the English do.

Or is it this: To be sick and send away the comforters, and to make friends of the deaf, who never hear your requests?

To judge the value of life by whether we find it now unpleasant or not — can a more wild, extravagant vanity be imagined?