“The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.”
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Famous Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.”
“Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.”
Source: Why I am So Wise
“Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.”
“The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.”
“Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.”
“There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.”
“All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.”
“I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None
“Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.”
“If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.”
“All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.”
Source: The Essential Nietzsche