Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).
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From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
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Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!
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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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[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.
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The beast in us must be wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.
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For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.
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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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Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
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To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
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Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.
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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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Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
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The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.
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We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.
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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
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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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Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.
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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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Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves.
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To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.