Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.
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Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.
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Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
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We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.
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Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.
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Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking.
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But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.
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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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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
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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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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.
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They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.
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Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
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A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.
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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.
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Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.
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The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.
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It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.
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Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
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I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
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Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.