Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.
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We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
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The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.
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The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one’s thoughts to cease to be aware of life.
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I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.
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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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In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
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What follows, then? That one had better put on gloves before reading the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it very advisable. One would as little choose early Christians for companions as Polish Jews: not that one need seek out an objection to them - neither has a pleasant smell.
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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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Wir haben uns über unser Dasein vor uns selbst zu verantworten; folglich wollen wir auch die wirklichen Steuermänner dieses Daseins abgeben und nicht zulassen, daß unsre Existenz einer gedankenlosen Zufälligkeit gleiche.
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The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.
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Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.
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People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.
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How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.
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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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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
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He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
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A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.
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We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
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What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.
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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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And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.