Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Revenge Quotes, Sight Quotes

He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy.

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Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

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Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

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The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

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My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

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Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

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There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!

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Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

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Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

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Man makes god in his own image.

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A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

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As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

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Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

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Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

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Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

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