Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
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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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Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?
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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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The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
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I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
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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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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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He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.
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Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.
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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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Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!
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Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.
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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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I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.
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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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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
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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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Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.
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He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.
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Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.
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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.