Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
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Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
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If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.
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The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.
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Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.
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He who obeys, does not listen to himself!
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You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
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Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.
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[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.
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Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.
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To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.
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The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.
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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 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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Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.
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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 wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.
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Der christliche Entschluss, die Welt hässlich und schlecht zu finden, hat die Welt hässlich und schlecht gemacht.
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Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.
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Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.
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Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.
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One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.
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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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One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."