Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.
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We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
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The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one’s thoughts to cease to be aware of life.
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A life without music is an error.
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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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It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.
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I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding.
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In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies.
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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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Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.
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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
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Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.
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...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.
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To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
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It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.
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I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.
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The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.
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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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Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
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Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.
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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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You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?
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We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.
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"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."