Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.
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The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.
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I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.
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For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.
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All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
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The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.
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What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
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Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers.
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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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The quest for philosophical beginnings is idle, for everywhere in all beginnings we find only the crude, the unformed, the empty and the ugly. What matters in all things is the higher levels.
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What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?
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He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!
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This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!
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Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.
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That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.
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A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.
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Whoever wishes to justify [Philosophy] must show … to what ends a healthy culture uses and has used philosophy.
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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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There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.
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A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.