Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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No one is such a liar as the indignant man.
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Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.
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Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
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Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.
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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
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We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.
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There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
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Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.
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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
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A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.
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Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.
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We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.
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Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.
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The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.
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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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Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.
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Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
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Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.
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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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If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.
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But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.
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The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.