Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.
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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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There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.
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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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We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.
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What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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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. Philosophical thinking, on the other hand, is ever on the scent of those things which are most worth knowing, the great and the important insights.
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What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.
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What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.
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This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.
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If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
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Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.
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Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.
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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
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At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.
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Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
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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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In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies.
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There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
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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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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
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We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.