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“Your educators can only be your liberators.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations

“I stumbled upon Friedrich Nietzsche when I was 17, following the usual trail of existential candies—Camus, Sartre, Beckett—that unsuspecting teenagers find in the woods. The effect was more like a drug than a philosophy. I was whirled upward—or was it downward?—into a one-man universe, a secret cult demanding that you put a gun to the head of your dearest habits and beliefs. That intoxicating whiff of half-conscious madness; that casually hair-raising evisceration of everything moral, responsible and parentally approved—these waves overwhelmed my adolescent dinghy. And even more than by his ideas—many of which I didn't understand at all, but some of which I perhaps grasped better then than I do now—I was seduced by his prose. At the end of his sentences you could hear an electric crack, like the whip of a steel blade being tested in the air. He might have been the Devil, but he had better lines than God.”
― Gary Kamiya

“They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic.”
― Jens Bjørneboe

“A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“We can never comprehend the depths of gloom of night in the light of day".”
― Matthew Strecher, Haruki Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicle: A Reader's Guide

“This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world's disinherited, of those who do not fit in with their surroundings or with their own body or with their own race or tradition and who hope, by means of renunciation, to assure for themselves a future world where, to use a Nietzschean expression, the inversion of all values will occur.”
― Julius Evola

“The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“In the later part of his creative life Nietzsche suffered acutely from loneliness. Like his alter ego, Zarathustra, he found himself alone on a (Swiss) mountain top. But, intellectually at least, he accepted this condition. Since, he reasoned, a radical social critic, a 'free spirit' such as himself, sets himself ever more in opposition to the foundational agreements on which social life depends, he reduces the pool of possible comrades, and so of possible friends, to vanishing point.”
― Julian Young, Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography

“Not a bad thing to know something about darkness. You can’t talk about light without some knowledge of darkness. Like your buddy Nietzsche said, 'He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.' Keep that in mind.”
― Kazuki Kaneshiro, Go

“as the "people of the centre" in every
sense of the term, the Germans are more intangible, more ample, more contradictory, more unknown, more incalculable, more surprising, and even more terrifying than other peoples are to themselves:--they escape DEFINITION, and are thereby alone the despair of the French.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianityâ€�he saw them all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against quality, of the weak and timorous against the strong and enterprising, of the botched against the fit.”
― H.L. Mencken, Mencken and Nietzsche

“A waitress, bringing Finkler more hot water, interrupted Treslove's answer. Finkler always asked for more hot water no matter how much hot water had already been brought. It was his way of asserting power, Treslove thought. No doubt Nietzsche, too, ordered more hot water than he needed.”
― Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question

“Die Forderung, geliebt zu werden, ist die größte der Anmaßungen.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Such was also the case with Nietzsche, a volcanic genius if ever there was one. Here, too, there is passionate exteriorization of an inward fire, but in a manner that is both deviated and demented; we have in mind here, not the Nietzschian philosophy, which taken literally is without interest, but his poetical work, whose most intense expression is in part his ‘Zarathustraâ€�. What this highly uneven book manifests above all is the violent reaction of an a priori profound soul against a mediocre and paralyzing cultural environment; Nietzsche’s fault was to have only a sense of grandeur in the absence of all intellectual discernment. ‘Zarathustraâ€� is basically the cry of a grandeur trodden underfoot, whence comes the heart-rending authenticity â€� grandeur precisely â€� of certain passages; not all of them, to be sure, and above all not those which express a half-Machiavellian, half-Darwinian philosophy, or minor literary cleverness. Be that as it may, Nietzsche’s misfortune, like that of other men of genius, such as Napoleon, was to be born after the Renaissance and not before it; which indicates evidently an aspect of their nature, for there is no such thing as chance.”
― Frithjof Schuon, To Have a Center

“What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“The minds of others I know well;
But who I am I cannot tell”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Ahistorical commentators who too readily dismiss Nietzsche's interest in physiological questions (e.g., DeMan 1979: 119; Nehamas 1985: 120) miss the centrality of such ways of thinking to Nietzsche's naturalism and to the whole intellectual climate of the period. 'The naturalization of the image of man under the influence of natural science was the work of the materialist movement of the middle of the century' (Schnädelbach 1983: 229). In this regard, Nietzsche was very much a thinker of his times.”
― Brian Leiter, Nietzsche on Morality

“The darker side of Nietzsche’s ideas was incorporated into the Nazi belief system. Part of the link was straightforward: some things Nietzsche said were pure Nazi doctrine. His comments that ‘The extinction of many types of people is just as desirable as any form of reproductionâ€� and that ‘the tendency must be towards the rendering extinct of the wretched, the deformed, the degenerateâ€� could come from any work on racial hygiene.

Nietzsche’s central contribution was not these explicitly Social Darwinist views, but his rejection of the Judeo-Christian morality of compassion for the weak. Self-creation required hardness towards oneself: a strong will imposing coherence on conflicting impulses. It also requires hardness on others. Conflicts between the self-creative projects of different people made inevitable the attempt to dominate others. The whole of life was a struggle in which victory went to the brave and to the strong-willed. Noble human qualities, linked with the will to power, were brought out in combat but atrophied in peace. Compassion was weakness, cowardice and self-deception. The Judeo-Christian emphasis on it was poison. In drawing these consequences from his beliefs about the death of God and from Social Darwinism, Nietzsche provided the part of the Nazi belief system which ‘justifiedâ€� the cruel steps they took to implement their other beliefs.”
― Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

“The conviction reigns that it is only through the sacrifices and accomplishments of the ancestors that the tribe exists--and that one has to pay them back with sacrifices and accomplishments; one thus recognizes a debt that constantly grows greater, since these forebears never cease, in their continued existence as powerful spirits, to accord the tribe new advantages and new strength.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

“We know that the destruction of an ideal does not necessarily produce a truth, but only one more piece of ignorance; it is the extension of our ‘empty space,â€� an increase in our ‘waste.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

“In good company one must never want to be entirely and solely right, which is what all pure logic wants [...].”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Ä°nsanlara gönül indirmek, yüreÄŸinin kapılarını herkese açık tutmak, liberal bir tavırdır, ama yalnızca liberal. S e ç k i n bir konukseverliÄŸe yetkin olan yürekler, sıkı sıkıya çekilmiÅŸ perdelerinden ve örtülmüş panjurlarından anlaşılırlar: en iyi odalarını boÅŸ tutarlar. Neden mi? -"gönül indirmenin" söz konusu o l m a d ı ÄŸ ı konukları bekledikleri için...”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ

“–and only when you have all denied me will I return to you. Verily, with dierent eyes, my brothers, shall I then seek my lost ones; with a dierent love shall I then love you”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“I want to teach them what is understood by so few today, least of all by those preachers of pity: to share not suffering but joy.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“O puro espírito é pura mentira. Enquanto o padre continuar a passar por ser uma espécie superior - o padre, esse negador, esse caluniador, esse envenenador da vida por profissão - , não há resposta para a pergunta: que é a verdade? A verdade fica logo colocada em cima da cabeça, se o advogado confesso do nada e da negação passa por ser o representante da verdade...”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“In the German Middle Ages, too, singing and dancing crowds, ever increasing in number, whirled themselves from place to place under this same Dionysian impulse. In these dancers of St. John and St. Vitus, we rediscover the Bacchic choruses of the Greeks, with their prehistory in Asia Minor, as far back as Babylon and the orgiastic Sacaea. There are some who, from obtuseness or lack of experience, turn away from such phenomena as from “folk-diseases,â€� with contempt or pity born of the consciousness of their own “healthy-mindedness.â€� But of course such poor wretches have no idea how corpselike and ghostly their so-called “healthy-mindednessâ€� looks when the glowing life of the Dionysian revelers roars past them.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

“Epikuros bir iyimser miydi â€� tam da a c ı ç e k e n biri olarak? â€� â€� Görülüyor ki, ağır sorulardan oluÅŸan bir yük, bu kitabın yüklendiÄŸi, â€� en ağır sorusunu da ekleyelim buna! Y a ÅŸ a m ı n gözlüğüyle bakıldığında ne anlama gelir, â€� ahlak?...”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

“Pahalıdır bedeli, iktidara
gelmenin: iktidar aptallaÅŸtırır...”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Putların Alacakaranlığında

“Do not envy those who walk the easy path, for their steps leave no mark upon the world.”
― David Maze, If Nietzsche Wrote Meditations: Think Fight Club Vibes for The Self-Improvement Fanatic.

“He who waits for permission to live will find himself buried with the others who did the same.”
― David Maze, If Nietzsche Wrote Meditations: Think Fight Club Vibes for The Self-Improvement Fanatic.