Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
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New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.
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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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They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.
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Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
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Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
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When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.
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People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.
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Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.
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Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
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Ist das Leben nicht hundert Mal zu kurz, sich in ihm- zu langweilen?
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Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.
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Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.
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I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.
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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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When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work.
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We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.
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All that exists that can be denied deserves to be denied; and being truthful means: to believe in an existence that can in no way be denied and which is itself true and without falsehood.
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And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.
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There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
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Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!
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Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.
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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?