5 Quotes by Nietzsche Friedrich

One hurts those whom one wants to feel one’s power, for pain is a much more efficient means to that end than pleasure.

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…

Meine HärteIch muss weg über hundert Stufen,Ich muss empor und hör euch rufen:"Hart bist du; sind wir denn von Stein?" —Ich muss weg über hundert Stufen,Und Niemand möchte Stufe sein.

In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak; but for that one must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks – and those who are addressed, tall and lofty.

How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain