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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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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Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.
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A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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My task is to throw a light on that which we must always love and revere, of which no subsequent knowledge can rob us: man in his greatness.
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Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.
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Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.
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In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.
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A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
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The Gay Science, section 108.
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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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In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
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It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.
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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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Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
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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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Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
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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 to life that has value, except the degree of power-assuming that life itself is the will to power.
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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
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Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.
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If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?