39 Quotes by Nietzsche

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be?

What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of the other. You have a choice in life: either as little displeasure as possible, painlessness in brief or as much displeasure as possible as the price for an abundance of subtle pleasures and joys

We shall practice revenge and outrage against all who are not as we are'—thus the tarantula-hearts promise themselves.'And "will to equality" —that itself shall henceforth be the name of virtue; and we shall raise outcry against everything that has power!'You preachers of equality, thus from you the tyrant-madness of impotence cries for 'equality': thus your most secret tyrant-appetite disguises itself of virtue.

بهتر است به ذوق خویش دیوانه باشم تا به سلیقه ی دیگران ، عاقل ..

Only those thoughts which come from walking have any value

فأن كل أنواع القراءة تعد استراحة و هى من الأشياء التى تبعدنى عن نفسى و تمكننى من التفسح بين علوم و أنفس غريبة عنى