Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.
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Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.
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Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.
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Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.
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Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.
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Beware of spitting against the wind!
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I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.
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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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We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.
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What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent.
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Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.
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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.
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Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.
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I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.
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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
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Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!
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How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!
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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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In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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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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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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The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
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Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.