Quotes About Individualism

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.

Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?...you must know what you want and that you want. Fourth question for the conscience.

When Zarathustra had spoken these words, he again looked at the people, and was silent. There they stand, said he to his heart; there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

This - is now my way: where is yours?' Thus I answered those who asked me 'the way'. For the way - does not exist!

One person is always too many around me.

Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and the buzzing of the poison-flies.

Broad daylight; breakfast; return of cheerfulness and bons sens; Plato blushes for shame; all free spirits run riot.)

I mistrust all Systematisers and I avoid them — the will to a System is a lack of integrity.

Where there have been powerful governments, societies, religions, public opinions, in short wherever there has been tyranny, there the solitary philosopher has been hated; for philosophy offers an asylum to a man into which no tyranny can force it way, the inward cave, the labyrinth of the heart.

Go your ways! and let the people and peoples go theirs!- gloomy ways, verily, on which not a single hope glints any more!

Detesto seguir alguém assim como detesto conduzir. Obedecer? Não! E governar, nunca! Quem não se mete medo não consegue metê-lo a ninguém, E só aquele que o inspira pode comandar. Já detesto guiar-me a mim próprio! Gosto, como os animais das florestas e dos mares, De me perder durante um grande pedaço, Acocorar-me a sonhar num deserto encantador, E forçar-me a regressar de longe aos meus penates, Atrair-me a mim próprio... para mim.

Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions. One knows, indeed, what their ways bring: they undermine the will to power; they level mountain and valley, and call that morality; they make men small, cowardly, and hedonistic — every time it is the herd animal that triumphs with them. Liberalism: in other words, herd-animalization.

You lonely of today, you withdrawing ones, one day you shall be a people: from you that have chosen yourselves a chosen people shall grow and from them the overman.

When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates.

This – is now my way: where is yours?' Thus I answered those who asked me 'the way'. For the way – does not exist!

The Free Man is a Warrior. I do not believe in any Rights that are not supported by the power required to enforce them.

flee, my friend, into thy solitude! i see thee defended with the noise of great men, and stung all over with the stings of little ones. Admirably do forest and rock know how to be silent with thee. resemble again the tree which thou lovest

This- is now my way,- where is yours? Thus did I answer those who asked me the way. For the way- it does not exist!