Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!
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Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.
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Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.
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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to speak out the most hidden and intimate things.
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
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That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!
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That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.
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The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.
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Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.
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Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves.
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There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.
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The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.
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But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.
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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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Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.
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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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He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap.
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Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.
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Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!
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Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.
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I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.
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You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
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In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.