Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!
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When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.
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All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.
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Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.
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The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.
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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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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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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.
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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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No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
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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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Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
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You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.
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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.
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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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His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.
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Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.
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Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.
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Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.
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And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.
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Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.
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There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.
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And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.