One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated Friedrich Nietzsche failurepainmen A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul. Friedrich Nietzsche atheistreligiousbelieve No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites. Friedrich Nietzsche hypocritepower Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being. Friedrich Nietzsche remarkableartistaverage A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction. Friedrich Nietzsche doubtjoywar Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government. Friedrich Nietzsche governmentbrotherpast Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't. Friedrich Nietzsche idiotapplesannoyed What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. Friedrich Nietzsche sithfeelingsmen Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away. Friedrich Nietzsche savageswomenbird A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. Friedrich Nietzsche marriagepowerfullove The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up. Friedrich Nietzsche levelsdesirehistory All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy). Friedrich Nietzsche brutalitypeopleart A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book. Friedrich Nietzsche officewritingbook School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance. Friedrich Nietzsche importantschoolreligion Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights! Friedrich Nietzsche rightscleverpeople The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage. Friedrich Nietzsche wreckagestarsworld All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness. Friedrich Nietzsche fakefashiongovernment When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do. Friedrich Nietzsche realmenart I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals. Friedrich Nietzsche atheismfeargiving Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him. Friedrich Nietzsche sailpurposewind
