Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.
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The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.
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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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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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I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.
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Die mutter der Ausschweifung ist nicht die Freude, sondern die Freudlosigkeit.1
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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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What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.
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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
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How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.
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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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The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.
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Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!
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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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I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
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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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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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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
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That every will must consider every other will its equal - would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.
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Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?
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[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.
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Ist das Leben nicht hundert Mal zu kurz, sich in ihm- zu langweilen?