Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.
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The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.
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But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.
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"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."
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It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.
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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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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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What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.
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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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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
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Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.
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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.
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I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.
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We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.
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Danger of our culture. We belong to a time in which culture is in danger of being destroyed by the means of culture.
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Without passions you have no experience whatever.
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Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.
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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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Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.
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Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
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We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.
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When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.
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I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.
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Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.