Firsts Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To the good warrior soundeth "thou shalt" pleasanter than "I will." And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see……

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche