Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.
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Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.
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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
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Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.
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Everything good, fine or great they do is first of all an argument against the skeptic inside them.
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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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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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Love is more afraid of change than destruction.
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A life without music is an error.
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I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)
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While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is 'outside,' what is 'different,' what is 'not itself'; and this No is its creative deed.
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In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.
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Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.
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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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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
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The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.
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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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Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.
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If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.
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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.