Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.
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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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No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].
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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
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There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.
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The universe without music would be madness.
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
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Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own.
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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
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Love is blind, friends close their eyes.
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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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And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
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Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
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One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
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But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!
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One should never know too precisely whom one has married.
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A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.
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Die Leugner des Zufalls. - 'Kein Sieger glaubt an den Zufall.'
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From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?
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The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.
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The modern scientific counterpart to belief in God is the belief in the universe as an organism: this disgusts me. This is to make what is quite rare and extremely derivative, the organic, which we perceive only on the surface of the earth, into something essential, universal, and eternal! This is still an anthropomorphizing of nature!
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God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.