Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.
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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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If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.
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In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.
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Hat man sein warum? des Lebens, so verträgt man sich fast mit jedem wie?
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My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.
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Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.
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As a genius of construction man raises himself far above the bee in the following way: whereas the bee builds with wax that he gathers from nature, man builds with the far more delicate conceptual material which he first has to manufacture from himself.
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I now myself live, in every detail, striving for wisdom, while I formerly merely worshipped and idolized the wise.
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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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One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
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The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.
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Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.
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Love is more afraid of change than destruction.
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Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
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Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.
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My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.
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The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.
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At heart I am a warrior.
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One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.
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Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.
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It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.
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It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.
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Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.