Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Only ideas won by walking have any value.
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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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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
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To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.
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Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
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The concept of greatness is changeable, in the realm of morality as well as in that of esthetics. And so philosophy starts by legislating greatness.
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Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.
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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.
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There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.
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Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches - and in punishment there is so much that is festive!
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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
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What follows, then? That one had better put on gloves before reading the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it very advisable. One would as little choose early Christians for companions as Polish Jews: not that one need seek out an objection to them - neither has a pleasant smell.
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A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.
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People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.
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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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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
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Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.
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He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.