Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.
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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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O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!
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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
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A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
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To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.
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I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.
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Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.
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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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For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.
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Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.
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Love forgives the lover even his lust.
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Die mutter der Ausschweifung ist nicht die Freude, sondern die Freudlosigkeit.1
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Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?
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This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!
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...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.
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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
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I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
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Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).
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Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.
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The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.
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No one is such a liar as the indignant man.