Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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A Path to Equality. - A few hours of mountain climbing turn a rascal and a saint into two pretty similar creatures. Fatigue is the shortest way to Equality and Fraternity-and, in the end, Liberty will surrender to Sleep.
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A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.
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Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.
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If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.
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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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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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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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Man is the cruelest animal.
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One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.
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There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.
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A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.
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All instincts that do not discharge themselves outwardly turn inward - this is what I call the internalization of man: thus it was that man first developed what was later called his 'soul.'
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Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
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Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.
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There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.
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I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.
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Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.
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In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.
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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.
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The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.
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Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!
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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.