The Page of Nietzsche

This page has some of Nietzsche's quotes.  Some are links to essays I've written about them.  If you care to read my thoughts, just click on the quote.  You may find some of these quotes disturbing, as do I.  I don't agree with most of the quotes.  I posted all that I have so you may form your own opinion.

"People who experience dreadful things become dreadful themselves." "When we must change our opinions of a person, we hold him accountable for the inconvenience he causes us." "Whoever makes a friend also makes an enemy." "Who has not at some time sacrificed himself for his good name?" "What a person truly is begins to reveal itself when his talent diminishes." "Whatever is done out of love takes place beyond good and evil."

"When one fetters one's heart, one allows one's spirit many liberties." "The happiness and unhappiness of the rational animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does." "The beginnings of justice take root in those istincts that teach us to search for food and avoid our enemies." "Our duties are the claims that others have upon us."

"The desire for distinction is the  desire to subjugate one's neighbor even if only in dreams and feelings."

"We love our desires, not the things (or people)  desired." "Truth must side with power or it will perish."

"Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger."

"There is no morality, only moral interpretation." "We ought to fear people who hate themselves, because we might become the victims of their anger and revenge." "The thought of suicide is a great consolation--by means of it one gets through many bad nights." "The most general defect in education today is that nobody teaches (or even wishes to endure) solitude."

"To do things of the worst nature--things of which we scarcely dare speak--is also heroic." "If  we don't honor others in our private thoughts as well as in what we say publicly, we are not ladies and gentlemen." "We ought to avoid events, since ever the least importantant of them make a strong impression on us." "How beautiful is the sound of bad music[motive] as we march to meet the enemy." "One has lived carelessly if he has failed to see the hand that hills with leniency." "If people reserve their veneration and happiness for works of fancy and imagination, then it's not surprising that they're chilled and displeased by reality." "Women are more babaric in love than men."

"The sexes deceive themselves--in reality they love only themselves." "To be ashamed of one's immorality is to  be ashamed of one's morality." "The degree and nature of a person's sensuality extends to the highest altitudes of the spirit." "The person who attains a goal surpasses it." "Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself." "Love of one, and one only, is barbaric." "A person who despises himself nevertheless loves himself." "We do the same when awake as when  dreaming--we invent and imagine people and then immediately forget them."

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