Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The strongest have their moments of fatigue.
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Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.
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Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
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Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.
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Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.
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The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.
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One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
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Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.
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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
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An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.
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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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If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.
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No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
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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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Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.
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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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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more".
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In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.
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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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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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On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!
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I now myself live, in every detail, striving for wisdom, while I formerly merely worshipped and idolized the wise.