Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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.
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I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
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Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.
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On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.
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I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
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Unglück. - Die Auszeichnung, welche im Unglück liegt (als ob es ein Zeichen von Flachheit, Anspruchslosigkeit, Gewöhnlichkeit sei, sich glücklich zu fühlen), ist so gross, dass wenn Jemand Einem sagt: 'Aber wie glücklich Sie sind!' man gewöhnlich protestirt.
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For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.
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All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.
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The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.
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I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.
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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.
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The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.
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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
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So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.
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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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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
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Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.
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The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.
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Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.
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The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.
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To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.
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The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
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The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.
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At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.