Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.
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He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
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Art is the proper task of life.
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Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
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In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.
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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.
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We want to be poets of our life - first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.
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Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.
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If you know the why, you can live any how.
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Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
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Christianity is Platonism for the people.
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The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.
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Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!
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Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.
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He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy.
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Energy wasted on negative ends.
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What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?
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Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.
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No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.
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The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.
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Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
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They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!
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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.