Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
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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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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
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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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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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You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.
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Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
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To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
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The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.
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The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: 'Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.'
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The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.
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Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
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The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.
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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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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!
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Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.
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What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?
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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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A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.
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Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.
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All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.
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Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.
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There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
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Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.