Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.
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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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Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.
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The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.
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Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
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God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
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Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.
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Ziel und Wege. - Viele sind hartnäckig in Bezug auf den einmal eingeschlagenen Weg, Wenige in Bezug auf das Ziel.
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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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Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.
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The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.
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Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores.
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People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.
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At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.
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It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.
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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 should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.
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One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
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I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.
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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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In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.
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One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
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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!