Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.
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To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
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However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!
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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.
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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs.
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Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
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Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.
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The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty - I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.
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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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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 really historical performance would talk to ghosts.
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In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.
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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!
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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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We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
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Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.
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The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.
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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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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
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An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
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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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I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.
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[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.