Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
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I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.
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A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?
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For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.
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I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.
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In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.
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Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").
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Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.
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The good displeases us when we are not up to it.
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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much .
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One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.
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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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The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.
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History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.
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The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
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A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.
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Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.
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We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.
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In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.
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From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?
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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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Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
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Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.