Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

That idyllic shepherd of modern man is only a counterfeit, the totality of cultural illusions which he counts as nature.

You love your virtue as the mother her child; but when was it heard of a mother wanting to be paid for her love?

Ainda agora o mundo é livre para as almas grandes. Para os que vivem solitários ou aos pares ainda há muitos sítios vagos onde se aspira a fragrância dos mares silenciosos.

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.

without a constant counterfeiting of the world by means of numbers, man could not live—that

To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write. (VII

Thus spoke the devil to me once: God too has his hell: it is his love of man....And most recently I heard him speak this word: God is dead: God died of his pity for man. —On the Pitying

Au existat pân? acum o mie de scopuri, c?ci au existat o mie de popoare. Doar lanÅ£ul pe cele-o mie de capete lipseÅŸte, lipseÅŸte înc? un singur scop. Umanitatea n-are înc? scop. Dar spuneÅ£i-mi, voi, fraÅ£i ai mei: dac? umanit??ii îi lipseÅŸte scopul, nu-nseamn? oare c? ea îns??i nu exist? înc??

Each tradition grows more venerable the farther its origin lies in the past, the more it is forgotten; the respect paid to the tradition accumulates from generation to generation; finally the origin becomes sacred and awakens awe.

88 One begins to distrust very clever persons when they become embarrassed.

The sea storms: all is in the sea.

Thus spoke the devil to me once: 'God too has his hell: it is his love of man.'...And most recently I heard him speak this word: 'God is dead: God died of his pity for man.

If someone rejoices while burning at the stake it is not because he has triumphed over his pain, but rather over not feeling any pain when he expected to.

HOW COULD anything originate out of its opposite? For example, truth out of error? or the Will to Truth out of the will to deception? or the generous deed out of selfishness? or the pure sun-bright vision of the wise man out of covetousness?

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn

Uno va dal prossimo perché cerca se stesso, e l'altro perché vorrebbe perdersi. Il vostro cattivo amore per voi stessi fa della solitudine una prigione per voi.

Es necesario ser un mar para poder recibir una sucia corriente sin volverse impuro.

This book is intended for calm readers.

there is a depth of happiness in which the painfullest and gloomiest do not operate as antitheses, but as conditioned, as demanded in the sense of necessary shades of colour in such an overflow of light.

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as a tree as it ought to be.

The former morality, namely Kant's, demanded of the individual actions which one desired of all men: that was a very naive thing;

The creator seeks companions, not corpses or herds or believers. The creator seeks fellow-creators, those who inscribe new values on new tables. The

Every series of evolutions, according to them, was presided over by a prophet; and every prophet had his 'Hazar,'—his dynasty of a thousand years. All

In practice it is death that works so seductively behind the image of its brother, sleep