Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.
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If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.
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The future influences the present just as much as the past.
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Everything matters. Nothing's important.
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New Domestic Animals. I want to have my lion and my eagle about me, that I may always have hints and premonitions concerning the amount of my strength or weakness. Must I look down on them today, and be afraid of them? And will the hour come once more when they will look up to me, and tremble?
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The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
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People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.
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We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for. In all talk there is a grain of contempt.
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Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.
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Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.
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There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.
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One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.
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A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
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If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.
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The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.
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He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.
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You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!
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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
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Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
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Truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.
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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
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Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.