Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
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We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.
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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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Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
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A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.
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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
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Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.
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Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
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Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
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Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
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One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.
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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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A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as 'a tree as it ought to be.'
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If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.
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If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.
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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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Es ist nicht der Kampf der Meinungen, welcher die Geschichte so gewaltthätig gemacht hat, sondern der Kampf des Glaubens an die Meinungen, das heisst der Ueberzeugungen.
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More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.
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The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.
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It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.
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On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!