Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as 'a tree as it ought to be.'
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One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."
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Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.
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Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.
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All great men are play actors of their own ideal.
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I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.
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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.
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You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.
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To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.
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[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.
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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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Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.
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Man is the cruelest animal.
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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.
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Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.
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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
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Ziel und Wege. - Viele sind hartnäckig in Bezug auf den einmal eingeschlagenen Weg, Wenige in Bezug auf das Ziel.
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It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.
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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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Where could we find an instance of cultural pathology which philosophy restored to health? If philosophy ever manifested itself as helpful, redeeming, or prophylactic, it was in a healthy culture. The sick, it made even sicker.
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Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.
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As a genius of construction man raises himself far above the bee in the following way: whereas the bee builds with wax that he gathers from nature, man builds with the far more delicate conceptual material which he first has to manufacture from himself.
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"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.
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But let us not forget this either: it is enough to create new names and estimations and probabilities in order to create in the long run new 'things.'