Friedrich Nietzsche Ate Quotations

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite!

You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?

There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally, what was left to be sacrificed? Didn't people have to sacrifice god himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves?

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?

I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

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

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.

Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.

I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself. No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.

What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!

We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for.

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.

Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights.

One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

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.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!

My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.