Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
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Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.
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There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.
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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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I am not a human being, I am dynamite.
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All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).
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The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one’s thoughts to cease to be aware of life.
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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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We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
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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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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
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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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Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.
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...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.
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Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize).
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Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.
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Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!
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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
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The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.
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One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.