Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?
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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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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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The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.
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Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.
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We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.
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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
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I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.
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We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.
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To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.
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Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
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Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.
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Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.
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History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.
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Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.
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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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Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.
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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.
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No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].
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Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.
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Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.
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People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.