Friedrich Nietzsche Asks Quotations

One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.