Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.
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More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.
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A vocation is the backbone of life.
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Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.
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Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.
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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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Success has always been a great liar.
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One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.
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When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.
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The strongest have their moments of fatigue.
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Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.
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Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.
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Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.
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Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.
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If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.
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Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.
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To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.
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The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.
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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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In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
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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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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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Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.