Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Der philosophische Mensch hat sogar das Vorgefühl, dass auch unter dieser Wirklichkeit, in der wir leben und sind, eine zweite ganz andre verborgen liege...
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I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.
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He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.
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With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.
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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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To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.
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That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.
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Love is blind, friends close their eyes.
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A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.
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That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
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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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Thoughts in a poem. The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
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It is the evening that questions thus from within me.
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I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.
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Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
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The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.
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All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.
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The whole disaster was only made possible by the fact that there already existed in the world a similar megalomania, allied to this one in race, to wit, the Jewish.
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One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
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The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!
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The doer alone learneth.
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...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.