Friedrich Nietzsche Demand Quotations

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

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

Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

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