Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
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So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.
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A life without music is an error.
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.
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There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.
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At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
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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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I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!
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The concept of greatness is changeable, in the realm of morality as well as in that of esthetics. And so philosophy starts by legislating greatness.
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Your educators can only be your liberators.
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In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
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A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.
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What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.
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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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I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
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My genius is in my nostrils.
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I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!
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The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.
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The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
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The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.
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It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best - and thus to the eye of him who sees everywhere only a spectacle also at his most beautiful.