Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

One must be prepared to sacrifice all desirability to truth, every truth, even plain, harsh, ugly, repellent, unchristian, immoral truth.?For such truths do exist

Said ye ever Yea to one joy? O my friends, then said ye Yea also unto all woe. All things are enlinked, enlaced and enamoured

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

while you pretend to read with rapture the canon of your law in Nature, you want something quite the contrary, you extraordinary stage-players and self-deluders! In your pride you wish to dictate your morals and ideals to Nature, to Nature herself, and to incorporate them therein; you insist that it shall be Nature according to the Stoa, and would like everything to be made after your own image, as a vast, eternal glorification and generalism of Stoicism!

the one who had lost the world attains its own world

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy; around the demi-god, into a satyr play; and around God--what? perhaps into world?

you had to become master over yourself, master of your own good qualities. Formerly they were your masters: but they should be merely your tools along with other tools.

Sudovi, vrednosni sudovi o životu, za ili protiv, ne mogu naposletku nikada biti istiniti: oni imaju vrednost samo kao simptomi, oni dolaze u obzir samo kao simptomi - takvi sudovi su sami po sebi budalaštine.

One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!

I shall say another word for the most select ears: what I really want from music. That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October. That it be individual, frolicsome, tender, a sweet small woman full of beastliness and charm. I

Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.

And what ye have called the world shall but be created by you: your reason, your likeness, your will, you love, shall it itself become! and verily, for your bliss...

Thus spake the devil unto me, once on a time: "Even God hath his hell: it is his love for man.

better than they words express it, thine eyes tell me all thy danger

for the objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one's thoughts to cease to be aware of life.

his wisdom meanwhile increased, and caused him pain by its abundance.

There is one thing one has to have: either a cheerful disposition by nature or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge

The fact that humanity knelt down before the opposite of the origin, the meaning, the right of the evangel, the fact that in the concept of 'church', humanity canonized the very thing the 'bearer of glad tidings' felt to be beneath him, behind him - you will not find a greater example of world-historical irony - -

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought, for one would thereby dispense with man himself.

A predominance of mandarins always means something is wrong; so do the advent of democracy, international courts in place of war, equal rights for women, the religion of pity, and whatever other symptoms of declining life there are.

the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.

Nothing lives which would be worthy of your striving, and the earth deserves not a sigh. Pain and boredom is our being and the world is excrement, ??nothing else. Calm yourself.

Similar to the way in which astrologers considered the stars to be in man 's service and connected with his happiness and sorrow, such an investigator considers the entire universe in connection with man

Ye venerate me; but what if your veneration should some day collapse? Take heed lest a statue crush you!