Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.
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A life without music is an error.
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The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.
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Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.
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It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.
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Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.
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Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.
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I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)
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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
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Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.
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It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure... The resourcefulness of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary.
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Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.
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Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.
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Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.
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I am one thing, my writings are another.
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Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
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All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
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We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.
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Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.
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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
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How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.
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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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What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.