Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.
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Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
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My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.
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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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It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.
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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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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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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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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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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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Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
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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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When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.
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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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To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.
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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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Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.
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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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When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'.
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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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Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.