Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!
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They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.
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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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Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.
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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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I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.
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My task is to throw a light on that which we must always love and revere, of which no subsequent knowledge can rob us: man in his greatness.
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All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.
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The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.
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Love is blind, friends close their eyes.
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Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
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There they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.
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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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Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.
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And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.
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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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Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.
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Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
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Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.
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No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].
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One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.
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The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.