Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.
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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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Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.
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We 'conserve' nothing; neither do we want to return to any past periods; we are not by any means 'liberal'; we do not work for 'progress'; we do not need to plug up our ears against the sirens who in the market place sing of the future: their song about 'equal rights,' 'a free society,' 'no more masters and no servants' has no allure for us.
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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
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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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Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.
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We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.
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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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To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.
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My genius is in my nostrils.
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.
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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
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It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
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What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.
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The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.
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It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.
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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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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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...to the priestly class - decadence is no more than a means to an end. Men of this sort have a vital interest in making mankind sick, and in confusing the values of 'good' and 'bad,' 'true' and 'false' in a manner that is not only dangerous to life, but also slanders it.
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What is now decisive against Christianity is our taste, no longer our reasons.
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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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One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.