Friedrich Nietzsche Ali Quotations

But the thought is one thing, the deed is another, and another yet is the image of the deed. The wheel of causality does not roll between them.

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

Master-morality and Slave-morality.

Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.

Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!

This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.

Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal".

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

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

All that the world needs most today, is combined in the most deductive manner in his art; the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality, and innocence (idiocy).

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.

Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.

We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself.

There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear"..

Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.

Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.

One should steal only where one cannot rob.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Fear is the mother of morality.

I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work.

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.

The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.

And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased.

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

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