Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Asceticism Quotes

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

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That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.

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The Gay Science, section 108

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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

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Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

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Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

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The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

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But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

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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.

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We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

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Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

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Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

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Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

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Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.

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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

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Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

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Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

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All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

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Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.

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