Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
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What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.
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To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
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Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.
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The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.
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A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.
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Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.
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...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.
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Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
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Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
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You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.
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It is the stillest words that bring the storm.
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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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However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.
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Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.
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It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.
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Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.
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Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!
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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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Die Leugner des Zufalls. - 'Kein Sieger glaubt an den Zufall.'
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Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.
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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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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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If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.