Friedrich Nietzsche: Trending quotes (page 22)

“Morality is herd instinct in the individual.”

“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.”

“A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.”

“He who obeys, does not listen to himself!”

“I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move.

Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.”

“Every one who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.”

“I love him who seeks to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.”

“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”

“The pure soul is a pure lie.”

“It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.”

“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.”

“Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.”

“Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.”

“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.”

“Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.”

“There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.”

“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”

“A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.”

“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”