Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.
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Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking.
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
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Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.
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I should not believe in a God who does not dance.
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
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Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.
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The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.
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The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction.
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The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.
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One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.
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From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.
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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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We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.
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There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.
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One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.
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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 essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
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The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
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Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.
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The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.
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That faith makes blessed under certain circumstances, that blessedness does not make of a fixed idea a true idea, that faith moves no mountains but puts mountains where there are none: a quick walk through a madhouse enlightens one sufficiently about this.
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State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people’.