Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
MoralityInterpretation There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
HateValuePerceptionEquality We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
ExpectationResponsibilityConscience Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
PerspectiveBeliefChangeUnderstandingCause and Effect Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
UnderstandingPerceptionKnowledgeLimitation We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
AntiquityWritingsHistorical ValueModern ReadingAccuracy A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
SincerityAuthenticityPassion Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
ReligionCritiqueSuppressionInstitutions Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
ArtRealityMetaphysicsNatureExpression 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.
WillpowerResilienceEnduranceStrengthTransformation I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
ConformityGroupthinkIndividualitySocial Influence When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
HumanityLimitationSelf-PerceptionDivinity The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
DisciplineSelf-ControlTemptationDesire It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
IntegrityCorruptionEvilVigilance Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
CreativityTransformationSimplicityValueRecognition When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
ProductivityOpportunityPotentialResourcefulness When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
TruthDepthWisdomMeaningUnderstanding It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Problem SolvingCompetenceWisdomEffectiveness There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
SufferingRevengeBlame It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
AdmirationInnocenceHumility There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
Ambition What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
TechnologyInnovationFutureProgress The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
SufferingSuicideDarknessResilienceCoping Mechanisms It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
JoyTruthLiving Fully And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Self-AwarenessMoralityPersonal GrowthReflection To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
ChristianityChristSacrificeMisunderstanding The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Human NatureInner DarknessUniversal TruthGood vs Evil In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
PowerWillpowerGood What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Kindness vs MalicePerception of KindnessTrust in KindnessBenevolence There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
ForgetfulnessOvercoming MistakesPeace Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
ExpressionPerceptionJudgmentBias We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
ThoughtFeelingInner SelfPerception Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
JudgmentEmbarrassmentHumilitySelf-Reflection Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
New BeginningsTransformationJoyCelebrationSpirituality Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
HumanityCompassionLearningWisdom There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
GivingEmotionGenerosityReceptivityCompassion He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.