Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
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We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.
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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.
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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
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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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Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.
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Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.
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Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.
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So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.
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With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.
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Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.
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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 genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.
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Being silent is something one completely unlearns if, like him, one has been for so long a solitary mole - - -
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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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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
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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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Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.
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We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.
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The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.
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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
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He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.
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The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
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A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?