Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.
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The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.
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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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Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
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Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.
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You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.
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The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.
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Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.
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A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".
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The good displeases us when we are not up to it.
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The beast in us must be wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.
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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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The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth.
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His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.
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An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
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I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.
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To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
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Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.
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Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
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Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
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For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!
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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).