Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes & Quotations

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

» Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

» Wherever there are walls I shall inscribe this eternal accusation against Christianity upon them -- I can write in letters which make even the blind see. I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.

» An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

» To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

» 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.

» Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

» When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

» The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

» One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

» One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

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