Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.
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The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.
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We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.
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It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.
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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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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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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
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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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Ziel und Wege. - Viele sind hartnäckig in Bezug auf den einmal eingeschlagenen Weg, Wenige in Bezug auf das Ziel.
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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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It is the evening that questions thus from within me.
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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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Every one who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
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I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving
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I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.
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"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?
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All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.
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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)
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Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.