Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.
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Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
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Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.
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Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
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It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.
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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
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I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.
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The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.
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Love is more afraid of change than destruction.
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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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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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If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?
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For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.
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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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Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.
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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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Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.
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An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.
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Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.
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What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.
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...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.
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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.