Category: Quote of the Day

The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence — here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for “laws.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not — that one endures.

Friedrich Nietzsche

And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything”.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our institutions are no good any more: on that there is universal agreement. However, it is not their fault but ours. Once we have lost all the instincts out of which institutions grow, we lose institutions altogether because we are no longer good for them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The doctrine of equality! … But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice … “Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal” — that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, “never make the unequal equal”.

Friedrich Nietzsche