Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.
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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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Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
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Convictions are prisons.
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New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.
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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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Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins.
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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
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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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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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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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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
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Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.
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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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He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.
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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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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
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For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.
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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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It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.
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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.
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One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.
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Without passions you have no experience whatever.