Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
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Danger of our culture. We belong to a time in which culture is in danger of being destroyed by the means of culture.
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
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The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.
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The English are the people of consummate cant.
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Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
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Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.
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Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.
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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
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The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.
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Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.
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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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Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins.
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One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
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On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams.
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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.
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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.
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He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.
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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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Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.
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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 have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.