Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams.
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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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You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.
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The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.
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God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
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That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
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As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.
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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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Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.
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That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.
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And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
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Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.
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The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.
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In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.
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There they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.
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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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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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Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!
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Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.
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Fear is the mother of morality.
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And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!
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The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.
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About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.
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You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.