Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Danger of our culture. We belong to a time in which culture is in danger of being destroyed by the means of culture.
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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
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I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.
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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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Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.
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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
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The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one’s thoughts to cease to be aware of life.
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We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
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We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
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Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.
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Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.
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The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.
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I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.
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From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
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As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.
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If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?
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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much .
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Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.
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From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.
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We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.
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[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.