Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without 'taste,' at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost. Philosophical thinking, on the other hand, is ever on the scent of those things which are most worth knowing, the great and the important insights.
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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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Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
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He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.
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Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
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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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If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.
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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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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.'
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I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.
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In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.
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Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?
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We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!
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Natürlicher ist unsere Stellung in politicis: wir sehen Probleme der Macht, des Quantums Macht gegen ein anderes Quantum. Wir glauben nicht an ein Recht, das nicht auf der Macht ruht, sich durchzusetzen: wir empfinden alle Rechte als Eroberungen.
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Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.
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For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.
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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
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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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Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.
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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
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Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.
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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.