Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.
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It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.
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Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
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The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend 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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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.
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It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.
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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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My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.
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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
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It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.
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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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Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?
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To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.
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In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.
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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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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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There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.
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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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When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'.
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Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.
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Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.
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Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).
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Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.