Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
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"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."
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One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.
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Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession…
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What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they..
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.
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The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.
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I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.
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Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.
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We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
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Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.
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One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.
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I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.
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Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.
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The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.
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When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
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The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.
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There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.
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Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.
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If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.
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Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.