Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.
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I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.
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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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It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.
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I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.
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When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.
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When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.
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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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Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.
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Love is blind, friends close their eyes.
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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
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One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
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I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.
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Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.
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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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Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
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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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The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
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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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From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
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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.