Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?
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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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Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
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These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?
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What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.
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A life without music is an error.
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Natürlicher ist unsere Stellung in politicis: wir sehen Probleme der Macht, des Quantums Macht gegen ein anderes Quantum. Wir glauben nicht an ein Recht, das nicht auf der Macht ruht, sich durchzusetzen: wir empfinden alle Rechte als Eroberungen.
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Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
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The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.
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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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If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.
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One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.
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Eins ist not. - Seinem Charakter 'Stil geben'.
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I am one thing, my writings are another.
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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.
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This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!
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The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.
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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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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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What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.
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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.