Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.
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We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.
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The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.
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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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I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!
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Der Mensch strebt nicht nach Glück; nur der Engländer thut das
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No journey is too great, when one finds what one seeks.
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One is punished best for one's virtues.
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[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.
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One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.
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Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.
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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.
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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
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wir vermeinen, daß Härte, Gewaltsamkeit, Sklaverie, Gefahr auf der Gasse und im Herzen, Verborgenheit, Stoicismus, Versucherkunst und Teufelei jeder Art, daß alles Böse, Furchtbare, Tyrannische, Raubthier- und Schlangenhafte am Menschen so gut zur Erhöhung der Species »Mensch« dient, als sein Gegensatz...
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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
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What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.
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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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Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.
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O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!
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The future influences the present just as much as the past.
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Truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.