Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.
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He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.
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The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.
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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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Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.
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Where there have been powerful governments, societies, religions, public opinions, in short wherever there has been tyranny, there the solitary philosopher has been hated; for philosophy offers an asylum to a man into which no tyranny can force it way, the inward cave, the labyrinth of the heart.
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There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
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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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One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
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The Gay Science, section 108.
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Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.
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By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.
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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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Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.
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Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.
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Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.
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I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
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Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.
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One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.
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On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!
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I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.
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An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.
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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without 'taste,' at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost. Philosophical thinking, on the other hand, is ever on the scent of those things which are most worth knowing, the great and the important insights.
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Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.