Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.
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All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.
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He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!
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Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.
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One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.
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That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.
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All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.
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Hat man sein warum? des Lebens, so verträgt man sich fast mit jedem wie?
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The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!
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My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.
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Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.
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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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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!
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Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time - in the form of legislation and customs.
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Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.
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One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.
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The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.
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At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.
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Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.
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What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.
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Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
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I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!
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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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What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.