Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.
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As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.
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Man is the cruelest animal.
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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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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Though the favourites of the Gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of Gods.
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Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.
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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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There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.
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If you know the why, you can live any how.
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Become who you are. Make what only you can make.
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The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.
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I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.
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There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.
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Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.
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Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.
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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 wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.
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For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.
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There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
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It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.
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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
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Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.
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Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.