Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.
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How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.
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How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.
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In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.
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That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.
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He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.
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You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?
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From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.
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But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.
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I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding.
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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
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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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The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.
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I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.
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We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!
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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.
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Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.
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Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.
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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
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Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.
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The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
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Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.
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[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.