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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The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.
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The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
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Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside.
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Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
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Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.
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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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What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.
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The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.
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He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.
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In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.
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We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.
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There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!
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To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.
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It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
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It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.
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When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.
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We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.
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The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.
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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.