Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
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We have seen how it is originally language which works on the construction of concepts, a labor taken over in later ages by science. Just as the bee simultaneously constructs cells and fills them with honey, so science works unceasingly on this great columbarium of concepts, the graveyard of perceptions.
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Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
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It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
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I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.
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Where could we find an instance of cultural pathology which philosophy restored to health? If philosophy ever manifested itself as helpful, redeeming, or prophylactic, it was in a healthy culture. The sick, it made even sicker.
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Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?
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Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!
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It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.
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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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The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.
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I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
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All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
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One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.
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There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
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One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
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Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.
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Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside.
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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 free man is a warrior.
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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.