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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Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.
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We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.
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The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
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Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.
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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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Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.
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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
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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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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
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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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The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.
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And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.
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You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!
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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
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Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
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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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Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.
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What the father kept silent the son speaks out.
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Love is blind, friends close their eyes.
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I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
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The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!
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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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The universe without music would be madness.