Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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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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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
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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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Every tradition grows ever more venerable - the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
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He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.
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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
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Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.
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Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?
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What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
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The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.
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Convictions are prisons.
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Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
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Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
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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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Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.
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I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.
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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.