Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
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Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.
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Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.
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I am one thing, my writings are another.
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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 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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What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.
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The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!
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The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion.
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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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Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.
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He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy.
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
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Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.
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Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.
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It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?
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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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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
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It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
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If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.