Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
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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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'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
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A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.
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We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!
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Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.
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One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.
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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
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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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That every will must consider every other will its equal - would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.
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Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.
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Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
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Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.
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Love is more afraid of change than destruction.
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What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.
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Der christliche Entschluss, die Welt hässlich und schlecht zu finden, hat die Welt hässlich und schlecht gemacht.
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In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.
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One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?
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The free man is a warrior.
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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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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.
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It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for 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.
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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.