 People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.
– Friedrich Nietzsche (Oct 15, 1844-Aug 25, 1900) |
Category Archives: Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche – Being overwhelmed by the tribe
| The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
– Friedrich Nietzsche (Oct 15, 1844-Aug 25, 1900) |
Friedrich Nietzsche – Once upon a time, clever beasts invented knowing
| Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of “world history,” but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature. There were eternities during which it did not exist. And when it is all over with the human intellect, nothing will have happened.
– Friedrich Nietzsche (Oct 15, 1844-Aug 25, 1900) |
Friedrich Nietzsche – The surest way to corrupt youth
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. 
– Friedrich Nietzsche (Oct 15, 1844-Aug 25, 1900) |
Friedrich Nietzsche – Influence the present
| The future influences the present just as much as the past.
– Friedrich Nietzsche (Oct 15, 1844-Aug 25, 1900) |
Friedrich Nietzsche – The snake which cannot cast its skin
| The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
– Friedrich Nietzsche (Oct 15, 1844-Aug 25, 1900) |
Friedrich Nietzsche – Only two groups: slaves and free men
| Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.
– Friedrich Nietzsche (Oct 15, 1844-Aug 25, 1900) |
Friedrich Nietzsche – A few hours of mountain climbing
| A few hours of mountain climbing turn a rascal and a saint into two pretty similar creatures. Fatigue is the shortest way to Equality and Fraternity–and, in the end, Liberty will surrender to Sleep.
– Friedrich Nietzsche (Oct 15, 1844-Aug 25, 1900) |
Friedrich Nietzsche – A God who wants to be praised
| I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
– Friedrich Nietzsche (Oct 15, 1844-Aug 25, 1900) |
Friedrich Nietzsche – Deception, flattering, lying, deluding. . .
| Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself — in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity — is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.
– Friedrich Nietzsche (Oct 15, 1844-Aug 25, 1900) |
Friedrich Nietzsche – No one talks more passionately about rights. . .
| No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.
– Friedrich Nietzsche (Oct 15, 1844-Aug 25, 1900) |
Friedrich Nietzsche – You have your way. I have my way
| You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
– Friedrich Nietzsche (Oct 15, 1844-Aug 25, 1900) |
