Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.
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Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.
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Energy wasted on negative ends.
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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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There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.
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Become who you are. Make what only you can make.
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We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!
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Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
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The pure soul is a pure lie.
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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
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I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.
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The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.
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Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.
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For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.
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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.
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Because of the way that myth takes it for granted that miracles are always happening, the waking life of a mythically inspired people - the ancient Greeks, for instance - more closely resembles a dream than it does the waking world of a scientifically disenchanted thinker.
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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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One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.
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I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
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It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.
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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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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.