Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
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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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Danger of our culture. We belong to a time in which culture is in danger of being destroyed by the means of culture.
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Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!
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Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
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The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.
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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.
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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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We ought to face our destiny with courage.
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Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores.
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In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.
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At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.
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You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?
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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.
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Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature.
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Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
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The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.
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Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.
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Freier Wille ohne Fatum ist ebenso wenig denkbar, wie Geist ohne Reelles, Gutes ohne Böses.
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With all great deceivers there is a noteworthy occurrence to which they owe their power. In the actual act of deception... they are overcome by belief in themselves. It is this which then speaks so miraculously and compellingly to those who surround them.
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Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.
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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs.
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Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.
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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.