Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.
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"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."
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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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From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
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I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.
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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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Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.
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"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.
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Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainländer, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize).
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A thought comes when it will, not when I will.
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He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!
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What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.
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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.
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The doer alone learneth.
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From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.
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Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.
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The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
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I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself.
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A life without music is an error.
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The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.
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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
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Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
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They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!
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Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking.