Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.
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Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.
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Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
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I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
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I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.
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Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.
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When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.
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Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.
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I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.
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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.
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Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.
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A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
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Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.
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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
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Become who you are. Make what only you can make.
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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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And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
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I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.
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The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.
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From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
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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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They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.
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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.