Friedrich Nietzsche Val Quotations

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

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

The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

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.

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

Only ideas won by walking have any value.