Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?

Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.