Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.
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Everything matters. Nothing's important.
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The future influences the present just as much as the past.
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Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.
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Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.
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One is punished best for one's virtues.
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To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.
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The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.
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People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.
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Der Mensch strebt nicht nach Glück; nur der Engländer thut das
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
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All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
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Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
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The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.
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Man makes god in his own image.
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
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There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
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We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for. In all talk there is a grain of contempt.
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No journey is too great, when one finds what one seeks.
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I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.
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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
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He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.
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Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.
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One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.