Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
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Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.
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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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The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.
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Eins ist not. - Seinem Charakter 'Stil geben'.
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Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.
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Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
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Das Empörende an einer individuellen Lebensart. - Alle sehr individuellen Maassregeln des Lebens bringen die Menschen gegen Den, der sie ergreift, auf; sie fühlen sich durch die aussergewöhnliche Behandlung, welche jener sich angedeihen lässt, erniedrigt, als gewöhnliche Wesen.
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What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
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Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.
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One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
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Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has hitherto always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed: - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!
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A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
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I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
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All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.
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All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.
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History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.
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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
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As though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!
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Only fool! Only poet!Merely speaking colorfully,From fools' masks shouting colorfully,Climbing about on deceptive word-bridges,On misleading rainbows,Between false heavensRambling, lurking -Only fool! Only poet!
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"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.
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The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!