Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.
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There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.
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The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.
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My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.
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We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!
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Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.
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In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.
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Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.
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The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
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No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
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The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.
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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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Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.
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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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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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Possessions are usually diminished by possession.
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Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.
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There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.
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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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Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.
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When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.
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Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.
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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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Everyone who enjoys thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.-Herein lies the difference between them that create and them that enjoy.