Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
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Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.
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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.
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The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.
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The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
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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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After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.
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We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.
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What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness.
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The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
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What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.
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Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.
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Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
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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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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.
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I have forgotten my umbrella.
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Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature.
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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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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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Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
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What follows, then? That one had better put on gloves before reading the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it very advisable. One would as little choose early Christians for companions as Polish Jews: not that one need seek out an objection to them - neither has a pleasant smell.
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Life without music is no life at all.