Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The value of life itself cannot be estimated.
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He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.
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To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.
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Love as a passion – it is our European specialty – must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.
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We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.
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I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.
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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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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
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Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.
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Art is the proper task of life.
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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.
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Without passions you have no experience whatever.
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
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One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.
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Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.
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I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself.
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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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Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.
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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 architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.
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If you know the why, you can live any how.
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I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled.
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What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.