Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.
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Die mutter der Ausschweifung ist nicht die Freude, sondern die Freudlosigkeit.1
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Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.
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The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.
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The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.
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Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
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Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.
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In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.
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Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.
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Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?
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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."
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Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?
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When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.
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'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
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The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
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Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.
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But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.
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Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.
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It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.
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In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
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Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!
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We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.