Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.
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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
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All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
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The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
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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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Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize).
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One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.
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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.
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To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.
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Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.
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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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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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You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.
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Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
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You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!
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I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!
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Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.
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Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.
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Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.
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And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?
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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
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Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
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You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!
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Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature.