Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Idleness is the parent of psychology.
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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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The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.
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Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.
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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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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.
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God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
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One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.
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He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.
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God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
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What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?
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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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The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.
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I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.
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Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
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In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
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Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.
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One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
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Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.
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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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I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
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Where there have been powerful governments, societies, religions, public opinions, in short wherever there has been tyranny, there the solitary philosopher has been hated; for philosophy offers an asylum to a man into which no tyranny can force it way, the inward cave, the labyrinth of the heart.
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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
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And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?