Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Growth Quotes

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

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But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.

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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

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I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!

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A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

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A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

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The English are a nation of consummate cant.

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I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

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Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas well as by the feeling of an incapacity for it (Min this respect a typical romantic!).... Fundamentally, Carlyle is an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one.

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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

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A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.

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You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

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The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!

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What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

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It is the good war that hallows every cause.

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At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.

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The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

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When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

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