Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.
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One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.
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A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
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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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A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.
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Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
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Hat man sein warum? des Lebens, so verträgt man sich fast mit jedem wie?
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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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If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.
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An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.
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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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Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.
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One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.
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Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!
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It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.
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We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.
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Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.
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You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?
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Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.
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No one is such a liar as the indignant man.
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What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.