Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.
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The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.
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It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
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Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.
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The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!
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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.
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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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One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.
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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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All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.
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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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All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.
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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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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.
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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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Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.
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Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.
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That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!
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The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.
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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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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
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If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.
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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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Hat man sein warum? des Lebens, so verträgt man sich fast mit jedem wie?