Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
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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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A life without music is an error.
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Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.
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Eins ist not. - Seinem Charakter 'Stil geben'.
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Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
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The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.
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Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?
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Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.
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Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.
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In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.
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He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger.
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Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
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No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.
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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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The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion.
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There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated.
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What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?
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A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.
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Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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The good generally displeases us when it is beyond our ken.
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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 does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.