Friedrich Nietzsche
Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.Collection: Men
An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.Collection: Important
When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.Collection: Men
Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.Collection: Joy
Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.Collection: Nature
One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.Collection: Rags
There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.Collection: Relationship
Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.Collection: Mean
All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).Collection: Art
There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.Collection: Harmony
Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.Collection: Doubt
Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.Collection: Eye
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.Collection: Believe
A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".Collection: Physicians
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.Collection: Hands
Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!Collection: Laughter
So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?Collection: Truth
At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.Collection: Men
We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!Collection: Compassion
The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.Collection: Science
One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.Collection: Hands
A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?Collection: Horse
A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.Collection: Reputation
You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!Collection: Honesty
Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.Collection: Slave
If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.Collection: Positive
Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.Collection: Life
Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.Collection: Plato
O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!Collection: Men
However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.Collection: Christian
Thinking evil is making evil.Collection: Life
All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.Collection: Taste
The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.Collection: Courage
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.Collection: Moral
The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.Collection: Christian
All philosophy is a form of confession.Collection: Philosophy
I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.Collection: Generosity
Righteousness exalteth a nation.Collection: Righteousness
A thing can only live through a pious illusion.Collection: Illusion
For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.Collection: Christian
Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself.Collection: Truth
As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.Collection: Novelty
Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.Collection: Men
It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.Collection: Religion
It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?Collection: Teaching
The hour-hand of life.Collection: Hands
One does not kill by anger but by laughter.Collection: Laughter
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?Collection: Mean
He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.Collection: Luxury