Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.
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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
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We have seen how it is originally language which works on the construction of concepts, a labor taken over in later ages by science. Just as the bee simultaneously constructs cells and fills them with honey, so science works unceasingly on this great columbarium of concepts, the graveyard of perceptions.
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It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.
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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
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… the republic of creative minds: each giant calling to his brother through the desolate intervals of time. And undisturbed by the wanton noises of the dwarfs that creep past beneath them, their high spirit-converse continues.
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For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.
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The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
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He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.
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Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
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It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.
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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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Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.
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Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.
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At heart I am a warrior.
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It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.
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Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.
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The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.
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Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.
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Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?
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Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.
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You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence.
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Hat man sein warum? des Lebens, so verträgt man sich fast mit jedem wie?
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You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?