Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.
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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
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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 courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
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No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.
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Christianity is Platonism for the people.
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Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.
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Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
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We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.
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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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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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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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The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.
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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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There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic).
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What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.
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That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.
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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
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He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.
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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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One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
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Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.
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When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.
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What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.