Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.
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There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.
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I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.
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But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.
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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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Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.
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Es gibt kein öderes und widrigeres Geschöpf in der Natur als den Menschen, welcher seinem Genius ausgewichen ist und nun nach rechts und nach links, nach rückwärts und überallhin schielt. Man darf einen solchen Menschen zuletzt gar nicht mehr angreifen, denn er ist ganz Außenseite ohne Kern, ein anbrüchiges, gemaltes, aufgebauschtes Gewand.
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Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.
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"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?
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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.
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Everything good, fine or great they do is first of all an argument against the skeptic inside them.
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However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!
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I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.
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Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
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Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
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Das Leben als Ertrag des Lebens. - Der Mensch mag sich noch so weit mit seiner Erkenntniss ausrecken, sich selber noch so objectiv vorkommen: zuletzt trägt er doch Nichts davon, als seine eigene Biographie.
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What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.
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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.
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The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.
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That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.
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The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.
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Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
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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.