Nietzsche Quotes
Prepared by: Dmitry Sirotkin
I present to you a selection of quotes from the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche .
Nietzsche's God died, so he reconsidered in his own way everything that was at all significant in the world and in man. This could not but affect the number of citations...
They are grouped by topics: life ethics, human manifestations, women and men, life, man, happiness, faith and reason, love, virtue, people, great, God, marriage, knowledge, religion, about oneself, Christianity, morality, death and immortality, self-love, values, superman, stupidity and intelligence, friends, culture and art, greatness, good and evil, books, voluptuousness, actions, will to power, existence, guilt, conscience, suicide, wisdom, music, beauty, power .
About life ethics
What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.
You must burn yourself in your own flame: how else would you want to be renewed without first turning to ashes!
Be who you are!
What falls, you still need to push!
This is the advice I give to kings, and churches, and to everything that has become decrepit from the weight of years and weakened in virtue: let yourself be overthrown! And you will return to life again, and virtue will return to you!
If you had more faith in life, you would give yourself less to the moment.
Since people existed, man has rejoiced too little: only this, my brothers, is our original sin! And if we learn to rejoice more, then we will best forget how to offend others and invent all kinds of sorrows.
My brothers, I urge you to love those who are far away and not those who are near.
If a person has a why, he will endure any how.
Only those who have felt fear in their hearts have courage; who looks into the abyss, but looks with pride in his eyes.
The best way to start the day well is to wake up and think if you can bring joy to at least one person today.
Whoever wants to learn to fly must first learn to stand, and walk, and run, and climb, and dance: you cannot learn to fly right away!
And if you no longer have a single ladder, you must learn to climb on your own head: how else would you want to climb higher?
If you decide to act, close the door to doubt.
He who fights monsters must be careful not to become a monster himself. And if you look into the abyss for a long time, then the abyss also looks into you.
They kill not with anger, but with laughter.
Beware of morally indignant people: they have the sting of cowardly anger, hidden even from themselves.
Be indifferent when accepting anything! Show honor by the very fact that you accept, that’s what I advise those who have nothing to give.
About human manifestations
We are more sincere towards others than towards ourselves.
There are giving natures and there are rewarding ones.
It is not the worst things that we are most ashamed of: it is not only deceit that hides under the mask - there is so much kindness in cunning.
People who are distrustful of themselves want to be loved more than to love, so that one day, at least for a moment, they will be able to believe in themselves.
It is not what prevents us from being loved, but what prevents us from loving fully that we hate most.
Heroism is the good will to absolute self-destruction.
People who give us their complete trust think that by doing so they acquire the right to our trust. But this is a false conclusion: gifts do not acquire rights.
It is painful for a subtle soul to realize that someone owes her gratitude; for a coarse soul - to recognize oneself as obligated to someone.
Talking a lot about yourself is also a way to hide yourself.
Blessed are those who forget, for they do not remember their own mistakes.
No winner believes in chance.
You will rarely be mistaken if you attribute exceptional actions to vanity, mediocre ones to habit, and small ones to fear.
Superficial people must always lie because they have no substance.
The cruelty of an insensitive person is the antithesis of compassion; the cruelty of the sensitive is a higher potency of compassion.
There are many cruel people who are only too cowardly to be cruel.
Cynicism is the only form in which vulgar souls come into contact with what is called sincerity; and the superior man should prick up his ears at every greater and more subtle manifestation of cynicism, and congratulate himself every time a shameless buffoon or a scientific satyr speaks right before him.
I have always noticed that spouses who make up a bad couple are the most vindictive: they are ready to take revenge on the whole world because they can no longer separate.
I don’t understand why engage in slander. If you want to annoy someone, you just need to tell some truth about him.
About women and men
Are you going to women? Don't forget the whip!
Woman is God’s second mistake, every priest knows this.
A woman knows little about honor. Let it be her honor to always love more than she is loved, and never be second in love.
Let a woman be a toy, pure and graceful, like a precious stone, shining with the virtues of a world not yet created.
For too long a slave and a tyrant have been hidden in a woman. Therefore, she is incapable of friendship: she knows only love.
In a woman's conscious love there is suddenness, lightning, and darkness next to the light.
Who does a woman hate the most? The iron said to the magnet: “What I hate most of all is that you attract without having enough strength to drag with you.”
This is how I want to see a man and a woman: he - capable of war, she - of childbearing, but so that both of them can dance - not only with their feet, but also with their heads.
A man should beware of a woman when she hates: for in the depths of his soul he is only angry, but she is filthy.
A man should beware of a woman when she loves: for then she is ready for any sacrifice, and everything else has no value in her eyes.
In a real man there is always hidden a child who wants to play. Find the child in him, the woman!
You should only talk about women with men.
A woman understands children better than a man, but there is more childishness in a man than in a woman.
A real man wants two things: danger and games. And therefore he is looking for a woman as the most dangerous toy.
By the way, quotes about women
About life
And you, my friends, say that there is no dispute about tastes? But all life is a dispute about tastes!
And this is the secret life told me: “Look,” she said, “I am something that constantly overcomes itself.”
Since time is infinite, infinity has already passed up to the present moment, that is, every possible development should have already taken place. Therefore, the observed development must be a repetition.
Every moment being begins; Around each “here” there rotates a ring-shaped “there”. The middle is everywhere. The path of eternity is crooked.
We don't live for the future. We live to preserve our past.
But if life needs height so much, then it also needs steps, as well as the contradiction of the steps and those ascending them! Life wants to ascend and, ascending, to overcome itself.
The highest symbols should speak of time and becoming: they should praise everything that is transitory and be a justification for it!
I would rather perish than renounce this: truly, where there is death, sunset and falling leaves, there life sacrifices itself for the sake of power!
Life is a spring of joy; but wherever the rabble drinks, all the springs are poisoned.
Life is a spring of joy; but in whom the spoiled stomach, the father of sorrow, speaks, for him all the springs are poisoned.
Even when the people are moving backwards, they are chasing the ideal - and they always believe in some kind of “forward”.
And most of all they hate the one who can fly.
Our duty is a right that others have over us.
The greatest events are not our noisiest hours, but our quietest hours.
In the face of boredom, even the gods lay down their banners.
There are two ways to free you from suffering: quick death and lasting love.
The whole world believes in it; but what the whole world doesn’t believe!
By the way, quotes about life
About a human
Truly, man is a dirty stream.
Even the broadest soul, my brothers, what pitiful lands this is!
Man is something that must be transcended.
Man is a rope stretched between an animal and a Superman; it is a rope over an abyss.
Only man resists the direction of gravity: he constantly wants to fall upward.
The earth, he said, has a shell; and this shell is affected by diseases. One of these diseases is called, for example: “man”.
The same thing happens to a person as to a tree. The more he strives upward, towards the light, the deeper his roots dig into the ground, downwards, into darkness and depth - towards evil.
A person is forever chained to the past: no matter how far and fast he runs, the chain runs with him.
Only where the state ends does a person begin - not superfluous, but necessary: there the song of the one who is needed sounds - the one and only.
Humanity does not represent a development for the better, or for the stronger, or for the highest, as is still believed. “Progress” is only a modern idea, in other words, a false idea. The value of the modern European is deeply inferior to that of the European of the Renaissance...
The man of “modern ideas”, this proud monkey, is terribly dissatisfied with himself - this is undeniable. He suffers, and his vanity only wants him to “suffer with him.”
A person's demand to be loved is the greatest of all conceits.
Long and great suffering brings up a tyrant in a person.
By the way, quotes about people
Oh happiness
It is only his thoughts that make a person unhappy or happy, not external circumstances. By controlling his thoughts, he controls his happiness.
Every little happiness should be used like a sick bed: for recovery - and nothing else.
There is much more happiness in the world than the eyes clouded with sadness see, if you only count correctly and do not forget those pleasant moments that every day of human life is rich in, no matter how hard it may be...
My brother, if happiness accompanies you, then you have only one virtue, and no more: then it will be easier for you to cross the bridge.
Misfortune has escaped you; Enjoy this as your own happiness!
And at dawn Zarathustra laughed in his heart and said mockingly: “Happiness is running after me. This is because I don't chase women. And happiness is a woman.
A man's happiness is called: I want. A woman's happiness is called: he wants it.
“We have found happiness,” the last people say, and blink.
By the way, quotes about happiness
About faith and reason
A free mind requires foundations, while others require only faith.
What a believer most hates most is not a free mind, but a new mind with a new faith.
The Christian faith is, from the very beginning, a sacrifice: the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of the spirit and at the same time giving oneself into slavery, self-reproach, self-mutilation.
Never before has any religion, either directly or indirectly, dogmatically or allegorically, contained the truth. For every religion was born out of fear and need and invaded life through the delusions of reason.
The concepts of “beyond” and “true world” are invented to devalue the only world that exists.
You were not yet looking for yourself when you found me. This happens to all believers; and that is why all faith means so little.
The French were only monkeys and actors of these ideas, at the same time their best soldiers and, unfortunately, at the same time their first and most significant victim.
About love
What is done for the sake of love occurs outside the realm of good and evil.
Every great love does not desire love, it desires more.
Great love is higher than suffering, for what it loves, it still longs to create!
The freer and stronger the individual, the more demanding his love becomes.
To love and perish: this combination is eternal. The will to love means readiness to die.
Even the cup of the highest love contains bitterness...
Those who have hitherto loved a man most have always caused him the greatest pain; like all lovers, they demanded the impossible from him.
There is always a little madness in love. But in madness there is always a little reason.
It is not through mutual love that the misfortune of unrequited love ends, but through greater love.
When you meet your person, you will understand why it didn’t work out with others.
Squalor in love is willingly masked by the absence of someone worthy of love.
Jealousy is the wittiest passion and yet still the greatest stupidity.
By the way, quotes about love
About virtue
As soon as we transgress the average measure of human kindness by one step, our actions cause distrust. Virtue rests precisely “in the middle.”
The dominance of virtue can be achieved only with the help of the same means by which dominance is generally achieved, and, in any case, not through virtue.
When you have risen above praise and blame and your will desires to command all things as the will of a lover, then your virtue arises. When you despise a soft bed and everything pleasant, yet easily fall asleep even next to the luxurious beds of sissies: then your virtue arises.
The last thing that repels me about respectable people is the evil they carry within themselves.
“Love your neighbor” means first of all: “Leave your neighbor alone!” “And it is precisely this detail of virtue that is associated with the greatest difficulties.
About people
They are cold and seek warmth in alcohol; they are heated and seek coolness from frozen minds; they are all frail and obsessed with public opinion.
Human society is an attempt, a long quest; It is looking for the one who commands!
Humanity is a means rather than an end. Humanity is simply experimental material.
There is nothing good in herds, even when they run after you.
They say “pleasure” and think about pleasures; they say “feeling” and think about sensuality; they say “body”, but think about what is lower, the body, - and in this way the trinity of good things was dishonored.
I hate philistinism much more than sin.
I hate people who don't know how to forgive.
About the great ones
To be great is to give direction.
Whoever wants to become a leader of people must, for a good period of time, be known among them as their most dangerous enemy.
In the world, the best things still mean nothing until there is someone who will present them on the stage: the crowd of these presenters calls them great people.
When you give up war, you give up a great life.
Eleven-twelfths of all the great men of history were only representatives of some great cause.
Anyone thirsting for fame must give up honor in advance and master the difficult art of leaving on time.
Every deep mind needs a mask - moreover, a mask gradually grows around every deep mind, thanks to the always false, namely, flat interpretation of its every word, every step, every sign of life it gives.
About God
God is dead: now we want the superman to live.
If gods existed, how could I bear that I am not a god?
All gods are symbols and intricacies of poets!
Even God has his own hell - this is his love for people.
If God wanted to become an object of love, then he should first renounce the position of a judge dispensing justice: a judge, and even a merciful judge, is not an object of love.
Truly, it always draws us upward - to the kingdom of the clouds: on them we sit our colorful stuffed animals and call them gods and the Superman.
Previously, blasphemy against God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and these blasphemers died with him.
About marriage
Marriage is the most abused form of sexual life.
Marriage is invented for mediocre people who are mediocre both in great love and in great friendship - therefore, for the majority...
A lot of brief madness is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many short madness - one big and long stupidity.
A good marriage rests on the talent for friendship.
Marriage: this is what I call the will of two to create one, greater than those who created it. Marriage is mutual respect and honoring of this will.
To grow not only in breadth, but also to grow upward - may the garden of marriage help you in this, my brothers!
By the way, quotes about weddings and marriage
About knowledge
In the end, no one can learn more from things, including books, than he already knows.
Truly, like the sun, I love life and all the deep seas. And this is what I call knowledge: so that everything deep can rise to my height!
The knower is reluctant to plunge into the water of truth, not when it is dirty, but when it is shallow.
You lovers of knowledge! What have you done so far out of love for knowledge? Have you already committed a theft or murder to find out what is in the soul of a thief and murderer?
You can close your eyes to what you see. But you can’t close your heart to what you feel.
He who knows himself is his own executioner.
We lose interest in what we have learned as soon as we share it with others.
Any truth that is kept silent becomes poisonous.
We know very little and study poorly: that is why we must lie.
About religion
The church is a kind of state, and the most deceitful one at that.
Every church is a stone on the grave of the God-Man: it certainly wants Him not to rise again.
Oh, look at these tents that the priests have erected! They call their dens, full of sweet aromas, churches!
In every religion there is an exception to the religious person.
Between religion and real science there is no kinship, no friendship, no enmity: they are on different planets.
As soon as a religion gains dominance, all those who were its first followers become its opponents.
By the way, quotes about religion
About Me
I walk among the people and keep my eyes open: people do not forgive me for the fact that I do not envy their virtues.
Whenever prudence says, “Don’t do this, it will be misinterpreted,” I always act contrary to it.
The depths of my sea are calm: no one has any idea what funny monsters it hides!
I allow myself to be deceived so as not to be wary of deceivers.
Have I ever felt remorse? My memory remains silent on this score.
I do not trust all taxonomists and avoid them. The will to the system is a lack of honesty.
About Christianity
Neither morality nor religion come into contact with any point of reality in Christianity.
The Christian Church left nothing untouched in its corruption, it devalued every value, out of every truth it made a lie, out of everything honest - spiritual baseness.
The very word “Christianity” is a misunderstanding - in essence there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
Let us not value a Christian too low; false to the point of innocence, rising high above the ape; in relation to the Christian, the famous theory of origin is only polite.
About morality
Morality is the importance of man over nature.
Being ashamed of your immorality is the first step of the ladder, at the top of which you will be ashamed of your morality.
When the good moralize, they cause disgust; When the wicked moralize, they cause fear.
Moral people feel complacency when they have remorse.
One could imagine a highly moral deceit in which a person is aware of his sexual desire only as a duty to conceive children.
About death and immortality
Death is close enough that there is no need to fear life.
Many die too late, and others die too early. The teaching: “Die on time!” will still seem strange.
It pays to be immortal; it costs you more than once to die alive.
Only where there are graves do resurrections take place!
Even in death, your spirit and virtue must glow, like the evening dawn over the earth: otherwise your death will not work out well for you.
About loving yourself
Love your neighbors as yourself - but first become those who love themselves - loves with great love, loves with great contempt!
You must learn to love yourself - this is what I teach - with a whole and healthy love: in order to bear with yourself and not wander everywhere.
We must learn to love ourselves - with a healthy and holy love, in order to remain true to ourselves and not lose ourselves. And truly, this is not at all a commandment for today and tomorrow - to learn to love yourself. On the contrary, of all the arts it is the most subtle, the wisest, the highest and requires the greatest patience.
About values
Good and evil, rich and poor, high and low, and all the names of values - all this will become a weapon and will militantly assert that life must overcome itself again and again!
The world revolves not around those who invent new noise, but around the inventors of new values; it rotates silently.
Everything you loved has disappointed you. Disappointment has become your habit, and your last love, which you call “the love of truth,” must be and is the love of disappointment.
Look at the believers! Who do they hate the most? He breaks the tablets of their values, destroys and transgresses, but he is a creator.
About the superman
In every act of a superior person, your moral law is violated a hundredfold.
Commanding natures will command even their God, no matter how much it seems to them that they are serving Him.
To dominate - and no longer to be a servant of God: only this means remains to ennoble people.
The freer and stronger the individual, the more demanding his love becomes; finally, he longs to become a superman, because everything else does not satisfy his love.
About stupidity and intelligence
My method of retribution is to send something smart after stupidity as soon as possible: in this way, perhaps, I can still catch up with it.
The more a person is silent, the more he begins to speak intelligently.
Most people are too stupid to be selfish.
Oh, how many great ideas, whose action is like a blacksmith's bellows: from them a person is inflated and becomes even more empty.
About friends
If you are a slave, you cannot be a friend. If you are a tyrant, you cannot have friends.
Have you become clean air, bread and medicine for your friend? Another is unable to free himself from his own chains, but he saves his friend.
Do not try to embellish yourself for a friend: for you must be an arrow and a striving for the Superman for him.
But if you have a suffering friend, become a place of rest for his suffering, but at the same time a hard bed, a camp bed: this is how you can best help him.
By the way, quotes about friendship
About culture and art
Culture is just a thin apple peel over the hot chaos.
Art makes life bearable by shrouding it in the haze of impure thinking.
The actor has spirit, but little conscience of spirit. He always believes in what he makes others believe in - he believes in himself!
About greatness
The desire for greatness is clear: whoever has greatness strives for kindness.
People who strive for greatness are, as usual, evil people: this is their only way of enduring themselves.
Everything great moves away from the bazaar and glory: the inventors of new values have always lived away from the bazaar and glory.
About good and evil
Those who love and create—that’s who have always been the creators of good and evil. The fire of love and anger burns on the name day of all virtues.
No people could survive without making an assessment of what is good and what is evil; in order to survive, he must evaluate differently than his neighbor. Much that is called good by one people is considered shame and reproach by another... Much of what is called evil here was clothed in the purple of honor there.
By the way, quotes about good and quotes about evil
About books
It is not at all so easy to find a book that has taught us as much as a book written by ourselves.
Conventional books are always stinking books: the smell of little people sticks to them. Where the crowd eats and drinks, even where they worship, it usually stinks. You don't need to go to church if you want to breathe clean air.
By the way, quotes about books
About voluptuousness
Voluptuousness: this is a sweet poison only for the withered, but for those who have the will of a lion, it is a great strengthening of the heart, the wine of all wines, reverently preserved.
Voluptuousness: it is innocent and free for free hearts, a garden of happiness on earth, a festive abundance and a gift of the future from its abundance.
About actions
Every action continues to build us, it weaves our colorful robe. Every action is free, but clothing is necessary. Our experience is our clothing.
Do you want to be judged by your intentions and not by your actions? But where did you get your plans? From your actions!
About the will to power
What well? Everything that increases the sense of power, the will to power, power in a person. What's wrong? Everything that comes from weakness.
The best must rule, and the best wants to rule! And where the teaching says otherwise, there are not enough better ones.
About existence
The most erroneous conclusions people make are the following: a thing exists, therefore it has the right to it.
Whoever wants to justify existence must also be able to be God’s advocate before the devil.
About wine
A person forgets his guilt when he confesses it to another, but the latter usually does not forget it.
It is not your sin, it is your self-righteousness that cries to heaven; the insignificance of your sins cries to heaven!
About conscience
There is a degree of inveterate deceit that is called “clear conscience.”
The desire for the herd is older than the attraction of one’s own “I”: and while a good conscience means the will of the herd, only a bad conscience will say “I”.
About suicide
Our suicides discredit suicide - not the other way around.
Preventing suicide. There is a right by which we can take away a man's life, but there is no right by which we can take away his death; this is only cruelty.
About wisdom
The danger of the wise is that he is most susceptible to the temptation of falling in love with the foolish.
You all served the people and popular superstition, you illustrious sages! - and not the truth!
By the way, quotes about wisdom
About music
Without music, life would be a delusion.
God gave us music so that, first of all, we would be drawn upward by it...
About beauty
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
The voice of beauty sounds quietly: it penetrates only the most sensitive ears.
By the way, quotes about beauty
About power
He is commanded who cannot obey himself
There is no more cruel misfortune in human destiny than when the rulers of the earth are not the first among their subjects. And then everything becomes false, perverse, terrifying.
About miscellaneous
One must still carry chaos within oneself in order to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
And may that day be lost for us when we never danced! And let every idea that does not have laughter be called false!
Until fate conquers us, we must lead her by the hand, like a child, and flog her; but if she has conquered us, then we must try to love her.
“Let's not talk about this!” - “Friend, we don’t even have the right to remain silent about this.”
When skepticism and longing combine, mysticism arises.
For one, loneliness is the escape of the sick, and for the other, it is an escape from the sick.
Most of Friedrich Nietzsche's quotes are only an expression of his basic ideas as applied to a particular phenomenon. However, some of the quotes are so subjective or contradictory that it is difficult to give a clear interpretation.
It is no secret that Nietzsche was mentally ill and wrote some of his writings in a state of darkened consciousness . For an amateurish walk through the heights of his work through quotes, this in its own way is not bad, since in this way many effective statements were born. But for professional researchers of his teachings this is a serious problem.
It is curious how the greatest German philosopher of the 20th century, Martin Heidegger, approached its solution. He methodically isolated periods of Nietzsche's life during which he was likely to be lucid, and analyzed only those texts of Nietzsche that related to these periods (“European Nihilism”). As a result of his analysis, Heidegger characterizes Nietzsche's philosophy as a metaphysics of subjectivity (the unconditional subjectivity of the will to power).
And here is what Karl Jaspers advises: A correct understanding of Nietzsche requires something opposite to what reading his works seems to directly lead to: what leads to Nietzsche is not the perception of his categorical statements as the last preserved truth, but patience, possessing which you ask more and more new questions , listening to something new and contrary to what was just said, maintaining tension between different possibilities.
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Life principles
1.
Death is close enough that there is no need to fear life.
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If you decide to act, close the door to doubt.
3.
What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.
4.
Talking a lot about yourself is also a way to hide yourself.
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And if you no longer have a single ladder, you must learn to climb on your own head: how else would you want to climb higher?
6.
He who fights monsters must be careful not to become a monster himself. And if you look into the abyss for a long time, then the abyss also looks into you.
7.
God is dead: now we want the superman to live.
8.
The greatest events are not our noisiest hours, but our quietest hours.
About morality
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There is a degree of inveterate deceit that is called “clear conscience.”
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What well? Everything that increases the sense of power, the will to power, power in a person. What's wrong? Everything that comes from weakness.
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What falls, you still need to push.
25.
The same thing happens to a person as to a tree. The more he strives upward, towards the light, the deeper his roots dig into the ground, downwards, into darkness and depth - towards evil.
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Man is a rope stretched between an animal and a superman - a rope over an abyss. What is valuable about a person is that he is a bridge, not a goal.
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Being ashamed of your immorality is the first step of the ladder, at the top of which you will be ashamed of your morality.
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About religion.
17.
“Love your neighbor” means first of all: “Leave your neighbor alone!” “And it is precisely this detail of virtue that is associated with the greatest difficulties.
18.
Every church is a stone on the grave of the God-Man: it certainly wants Him not to rise again.
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Even God has his own hell - this is his love for people.
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Whoever wants to justify existence must also be able to be God’s advocate before the devil.
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The word Christianity is based on a misunderstanding; in essence, there was one Christian, and he died on the cross...
