Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.
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No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
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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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Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
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They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.
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The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for.
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In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.
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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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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.
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Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.
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Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
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We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.
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Schatten in der Flamme. - Die Flamme ist sich selber nicht so hell, als den Anderen, denen sie leuchtet: so auch der Weise.
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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
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Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
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When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
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The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.
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When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.
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I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.
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What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.
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Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.
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Every one who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.