Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We obtain the concept, as we do the form, by overlooking what is individual and actual; whereas nature is acquainted with no forms and no concepts, and likewise with no species, but only with an X which remains inaccessible and undefinable for us.
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What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent.
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He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.
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Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
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Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
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On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
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Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
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Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!
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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.
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Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
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The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.
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I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.
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We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
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The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.
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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
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Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
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Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.
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Love forgives the lover even his lust.