Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.
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To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.
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Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.
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The doer alone learneth.
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.
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Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
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I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)
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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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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
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The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.
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The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.
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We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.
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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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The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.
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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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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.
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The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!
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When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.
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He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger.
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Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
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Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
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With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.
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Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.