Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Boldness is as natural an attribute of thought as thought is a natural attribute of freedom. . . . Man would still prefer to will Nothingness than not to will.

Live in concealment in order that you may live to yourself. Live ignorant of that which seems to your age to be most important!

One who reaches his ideal has by so doing gone beyond it.

Towards the throne they all strive: it is their madness—as if happiness sat on the throne! Ofttimes sitteth filth on the throne.—and ofttimes also the throne on filth.

MEDIOCRITY AS A MASK. — Mediocrity is the happiest mask which the superior mind can wear, because it does not lead the great majority — that is, the mediocre — to think that there is any disguise. Yet the superior mind assumes the mask just for their sake — so as not to irritate them, nay, often from a feeling of pity and kindness.

The infuriating thing about an individual way of living. People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

It is wisdom, worldly wisdom, to administer even health to oneself for a long time in small doses.

Advocates of truth.?Truth is least likely to find advocates not when it is dangerous to speak the truth, but when it is boring to do so.

Happiness runneth after me. That is because I do not run after women. Happiness, however, is a woman.

There are so many futures still to dawn!

I did that,' says my memory. —'I could not have done that,' says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually the memory yields.

In the struggle with the English mechanistic dumbing down of the world, Hegel and Schopenhauer (along with Goethe) were unanimous—both of these hostile fraternal geniuses in philosophy, who moved away from each other towards opposite poles of the German spirit and, in the process, wronged each other, as only brothers do.

There is nothing more terrible than a class of barbaric slaves who have learned to regarded their existence as an injustice, and now prepare to avenge, not only themselves, but all generations.

It is precisely he who is becoming who cannot endure the state of becoming.

With the new morning, however, there came unto me a new truth: then did I learn to say: Of what account to me are market-place and populace and populace-noise and long populace- ears!

Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.

One must have chaos and frenzy within oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

Mutter ich bin dumm.

Kada dugo gledaš u bezdan tada bezdan krene gledati u tebe

Lovers of truth do not fear stormy or dirty water. What we fear is shallow water!

Así me dijo el demonio una vez: «También Dios tiene su infierno: es su amor a los hombres.»

Meanwhile, however, it is quite otherwise, meanwhile the comedy of existence has not yet become conscious of itself, meanwhile it is still the period of tragedy, the period of morals and religions.

the way the Americans strive for gold; and their breathless haste in working - the true vice of the new world.

Ready must thou be to burn thyself in thine own flame; how couldst thou become new if thou have not first become ashes!