Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!
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He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.
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Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
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Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.
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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
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Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.
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Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins.
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When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
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Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.
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There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.
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Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
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Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.
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The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.
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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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Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.
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I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding.
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The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.
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The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.
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A life without music is an error.
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I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.
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Der philosophische Mensch hat sogar das Vorgefühl, dass auch unter dieser Wirklichkeit, in der wir leben und sind, eine zweite ganz andre verborgen liege...
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We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.
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And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.