Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.
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In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.
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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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People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.
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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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Freier Wille ohne Fatum ist ebenso wenig denkbar, wie Geist ohne Reelles, Gutes ohne Böses.
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Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.
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Love is blind, friends close their eyes.
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A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.
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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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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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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
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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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The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
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In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!
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Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.
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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
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That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.
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The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.
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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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Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.