Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!
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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 one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
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It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
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Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!
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Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.
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From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
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Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own.
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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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Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
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The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.
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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.
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Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
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It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.
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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
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At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.
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Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!
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One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.
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He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.
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I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.
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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.