Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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Only ideas won by walking have any value.
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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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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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Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.
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What follows, then? That one had better put on gloves before reading the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it very advisable. One would as little choose early Christians for companions as Polish Jews: not that one need seek out an objection to them - neither has a pleasant smell.
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Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.
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Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.
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Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches - and in punishment there is so much that is festive!
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Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.
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Just as soon as we notice that someone has to force himself to pay attention when dealing and talking with us, we have a valid demonstration that he does not love us or that he does not love us anymore.
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Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him!
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Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
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The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.
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Life without music is no life at all.
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There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.
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Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.
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He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.
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They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
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To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.
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No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
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Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.
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For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.
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Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!