Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
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The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.
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My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.
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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
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It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.
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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
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All great men are play actors of their own ideal.
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A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".
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I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.
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Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.
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New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.
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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
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One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.
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Ist das Leben nicht hundert Mal zu kurz, sich in ihm- zu langweilen?
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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
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We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.
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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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Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!
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Art is the proper task of life.
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Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
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It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.
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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
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Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.