Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
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Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.
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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
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The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!
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Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.
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What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
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I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.
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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.
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The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
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What is the strongest cure?--Victory.
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How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.
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Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.
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That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.
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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.
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Christianity is Platonism for the people.
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.
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I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.
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Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside.
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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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Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.