Friedrich Nietzsche: Trending quotes (page 23)

“There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.”

“They're so cold, these scholars!
May lightning strike their food
so that their mouths learn how
to eat fire!”

“Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.”

“The overman… Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.”

“One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.”

“Success has always been a great liar”

“One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.”

“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.”

“Belief means not wanting to know what is true.”

“one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.”

“Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.”

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

“In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.”

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”

“To find everything profound — that is an inconvenient trait.”

“Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.”

“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.”