Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Life without music is no life at all.
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We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.
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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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The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.
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For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.
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It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.
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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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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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Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
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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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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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After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.
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I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
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I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.
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The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.
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Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
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The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.
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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
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Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.
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When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.
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One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.
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Wir haben uns über unser Dasein vor uns selbst zu verantworten; folglich wollen wir auch die wirklichen Steuermänner dieses Daseins abgeben und nicht zulassen, daß unsre Existenz einer gedankenlosen Zufälligkeit gleiche.