Friedrich Nietzsche: Trending quotes (page 20)

“Some are born posthumously.”

“no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any”

“Convictions are prisons.”

“Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.”

“To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.”

“I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers…”

“One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.”

“Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.”

“Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.”

“Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.”

“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”

“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”

“He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.”

“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things, then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!”

“From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”

“Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.”

“I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.”

“What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?”

“In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.”