Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!
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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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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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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
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Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.
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The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.
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It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
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I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.
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The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.
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The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.
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A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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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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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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To what extent can truth endure incorporation? That is the question; that is the experiment.
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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
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When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.
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Without passions you have no experience whatever.
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We ought to face our destiny with courage.
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Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.
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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
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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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To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.
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From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.