Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.
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It is the evening that questions thus from within me.
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The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.
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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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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
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Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.
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Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
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If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.
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There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.
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To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.
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A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.
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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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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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Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.
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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
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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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Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.
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Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.
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I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding.
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He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.
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Where could we find an instance of cultural pathology which philosophy restored to health? If philosophy ever manifested itself as helpful, redeeming, or prophylactic, it was in a healthy culture. The sick, it made even sicker.
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.