Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.
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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.
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One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
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Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.
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That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
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I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.
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Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
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Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.
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What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
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The Gay Science, section 108.
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.
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Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.
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Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.
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All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.
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You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.
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In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
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When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".
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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
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Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.