Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.
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People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.
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You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?
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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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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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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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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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Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!
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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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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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Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!
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Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.
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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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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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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
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I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.
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From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
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And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
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However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.
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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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A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.
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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
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Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.
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To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.