Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it-so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.
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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
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The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.
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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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Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.
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Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?
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If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.
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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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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
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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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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.
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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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The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.
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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide ...
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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
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The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
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Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.
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The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.
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He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.
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One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?
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Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.