Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding.
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No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.
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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
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He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
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Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.
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One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
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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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It is the stillest words that bring the storm.
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Love as a passion – it is our European specialty – must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.
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All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.
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Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.
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You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!
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Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
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Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.
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When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.
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That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.
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What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.
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The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.
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There is nothing to life that has value, except the degree of power-assuming that life itself is the will to power.
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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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When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work.