Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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.
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In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.
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Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.
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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
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To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.
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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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Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.
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A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.
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Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor of the order-who, as such, enjoys also the triumph over obstacles, but thinks within himself that it was really his own will that overcame them. In this way the person exercising volition adds the feelings of delight of his successful executive instruments, the useful underwills or under-souls-indeed, our body is but a social structure composed of many souls-to his feelings of delight as commander.
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One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.
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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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He who obeys, does not listen to himself!
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Eins ist not. - Seinem Charakter 'Stil geben'.
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Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!
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Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.
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When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.
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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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Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
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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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Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
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There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
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All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.
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I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!