Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!
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Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.
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When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work.
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That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.
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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.
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The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.
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Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.
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With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.
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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
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Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
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The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!
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The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.
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I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.
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Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
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From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
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I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.
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Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?
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Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.
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Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.
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Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.
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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.