Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.
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It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.
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We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.
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Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.
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We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.
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There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
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Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
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In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.
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Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.
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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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Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
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The value of life itself cannot be estimated.
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Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.
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What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.
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Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.
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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
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Love is more afraid of change than destruction.
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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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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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Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.