“The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.”
Source: The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche
“The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.”
“The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.”
“The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.”
“In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.”
Source: The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes
“The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.”
“There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.”
“Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.”
“All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.”
“Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.”
Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book
“The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.”
“Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.”
Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book
“Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.”
Source: Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits
“If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.”
Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book
“We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.”
Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book
“Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.”
Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book
“There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.”
Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book
“Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.”
Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book
“Man is something that is to be surpassed.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy
“What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy
“I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy
“I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel
“I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel
“I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel
“I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel
“I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy
“I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his down-going.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy
“Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel
“"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel
“"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel
“My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil