Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.
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School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.
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What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.
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We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.
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The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.
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Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.
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I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.
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All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
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The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
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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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The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
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How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.
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Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.
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And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
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Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
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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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There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
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You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?
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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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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
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I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.
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In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.