Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Ambition What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
DivinityHumanityLimitationSelf-Perception The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
AccuracyAntiquityHistorical ValueModern ReadingWritings A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
BeliefCause and EffectChangePerspectiveUnderstanding Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
AdmirationHumilityInnocence 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.
BlameRevengeSuffering It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
DesireDisciplineSelf-ControlTemptation It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
ArtExpressionMetaphysicsNatureReality 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.
EnduranceResilienceStrengthTransformationWillpower I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
DepthMeaningTruthUnderstandingWisdom It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
ConscienceExpectationResponsibility Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
CorruptionEvilIntegrityVigilance 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.
EqualityHatePerceptionValue We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
CompetenceEffectivenessProblem SolvingWisdom 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.
KnowledgeLimitationPerceptionUnderstanding We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
CritiqueInstitutionsReligionSuppression Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
AuthenticityPassionSincerity Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
OpportunityPotentialProductivityResourcefulness When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
InterpretationMorality There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.