Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.
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The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
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Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome.
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We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.
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Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.
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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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If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
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Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!
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Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.
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Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.
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Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.
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The real world is much smaller than the imaginary.
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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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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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One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.
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I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!
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The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.
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To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.
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A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.
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People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.
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A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.
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He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!
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To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.
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A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.