Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
-
Der christliche Entschluss, die Welt hässlich und schlecht zu finden, hat die Welt hässlich und schlecht gemacht.
-
I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.
-
You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence.
-
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
-
Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.
-
All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.
-
The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
-
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.
-
Man is the cruelest animal.
-
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!
-
Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.
-
Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).
-
In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.
-
We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.
-
Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.
-
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
-
The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.
-
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.
-
You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.
-
For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.
-
The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).