Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
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Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.
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What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.
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What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.
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We 'conserve' nothing; neither do we want to return to any past periods; we are not by any means 'liberal'; we do not work for 'progress'; we do not need to plug up our ears against the sirens who in the market place sing of the future: their song about 'equal rights,' 'a free society,' 'no more masters and no servants' has no allure for us.
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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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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
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He who obeys, does not listen to himself!
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Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.
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'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
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Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.
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The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.
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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
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When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.
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Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.
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Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.
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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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I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.
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The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
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I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
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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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Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.