Friedrich Nietzsche Line Quotations

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.