Nietzsche's Best 8 Books Quotes

“Virtue is the health of the soul,”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“self-knowledge would not especially need the sickly soul as well as the sound one; in short, whether the mere will to health is not a prejudice, a cowardice, and perhaps an instance of the subtlest barbarism and unprogressiveness ?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“Your virtue is the health of your soul.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“living being is only a species of dead being, and a very rare species.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“This young world desires that there should arrive or appear from the outside-not happiness-but misfortune; and their imagination is already busy beforehand to form a monster out of it, so that they may afterwards be able to fight with a monster. If these distress-seekers felt the power to benefit themselves, to do something for themselves from internal sources, they would also understand how to create a distress of their own, specially their own, from internal sources.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“Nobility of Character.-What then makes a person " noble " ? Certainly not that he makes sacrifices ; even the frantic libertine makes sacrifices. Certainly not that he generally follows his passions; there are contemptible passions. Certainly not that he does something for others, and without selfishness;”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“They are not so much afraid of ennui as of labour without pleasure;”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“Provided they grasped my doctrine, the former would suffer too much, for my mode of thinking requires a martial soul, willingness to cause pain, delight in denying, and a hard skin,-he would succumb by open wounds and internal injuries.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“Qualities.-Our strong points sometimes drive us so far forward that we cannot any longer endure our weaknesses, and we perish by them: we also perhaps see this result beforehand, but nevertheless do not want it to be otherwise.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“With this effect, however, which he makes upon us he is well content: he wants to keep concealed from us his desire, his pride, his intention of flying above us.-Yes!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“Formerly it was perceived in a person that on some occasion he wanted to think-it was perhaps the exception !-that he now wanted to become wiser and collected his mind on a thought:”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“Yes, it is worthwhile to live! yes, I am worthy to live!"-life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesting to ourselves once more.-It is not to be denied that until now laughter and reason and nature have in the long run got the upper hand”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“Hyperboreans”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“Of the two, the one will always follow, the other will always lead, whatever be the course of their destiny.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“have already in the fourth act killed all the Gods- for the sake of morality!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“feel a pleasurable superiority, and are full of secret insight and penetration,-it”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“Life no Argument.-We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live-by”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“which we can live-by”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“excitation of the instinct of appropriation at the sight of the weak: it is to be remembered, however, that " strong " and " weak " are relative conceptions.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“That disgusts me.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“the degree of our honesty and justice.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

“thinker sees in his own actions attempts and questionings to obtain information about something or other; success and failure are answers to him first and foremost.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Best 8 Books