Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!
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When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".
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It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.
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Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.
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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
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Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.
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One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.
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Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.
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Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
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The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.
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We ought to face our destiny with courage.
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Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!
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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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Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.
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Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.
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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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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
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The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: 'Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.'
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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
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There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.
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People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.
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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.