Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
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Ist das Leben nicht hundert Mal zu kurz, sich in ihm- zu langweilen?
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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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Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
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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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And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
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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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Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.
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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
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What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.
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Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.
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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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One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.
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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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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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Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
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He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.
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They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.
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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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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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On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams.
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All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.
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In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.