Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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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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They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.
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Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.
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What is it that you love in others? – My hopes.
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A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.
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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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"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."
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We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
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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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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
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Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
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Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.
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Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.
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I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
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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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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
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Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.
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What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.
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The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.
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At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
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History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.
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When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.