Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.
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We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.
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People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.
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He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.
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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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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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We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
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Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.
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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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"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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As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.
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Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!
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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.
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One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.
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Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.
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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.
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Only fool! Only poet!Merely speaking colorfully,From fools' masks shouting colorfully,Climbing about on deceptive word-bridges,On misleading rainbows,Between false heavensRambling, lurking -Only fool! Only poet!
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The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.
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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.