For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes? Friedrich Nietzsche being-yourselflonelylying What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty? Friedrich Nietzsche desirementhinking Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. Friedrich Nietzsche warriorlyingenemy Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity. Friedrich Nietzsche houserunningyears Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live. Friedrich Nietzsche be-encouragedanimalmen The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche growing-upeducationchildren When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. Friedrich Nietzsche abyssdeep-thoughtlooks What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored. Friedrich Nietzsche educationmeanschool Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. Friedrich Nietzsche being-misunderstoodthinkermisunderstood 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? Friedrich Nietzsche disciplinegreatnessmen The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power. Friedrich Nietzsche criminalslawenemy The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. Friedrich Nietzsche leadershipbeautifulinspirational I am not a human being, I am dynamite. Friedrich Nietzsche dynamitehumanspower I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself. Friedrich Nietzsche mountainflameshealing There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth. Friedrich Nietzsche depthbeautifulinspirational Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others. Friedrich Nietzsche sacrificewinningmen Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. Friedrich Nietzsche feelingsinspirationallove One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche dancecouragedepression Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship. Friedrich Nietzsche great-lovemarriagepeople 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. Friedrich Nietzsche sadnesslonelinesshappiness
