Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.
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No artist tolerates reality.
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If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.
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Love forgives the lover even his lust.
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A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
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We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.
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Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.
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My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.
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And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!
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So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
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There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.
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We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.
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The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
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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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I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.
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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
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Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
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There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.
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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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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
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A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.