Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Eins ist not. - Seinem Charakter 'Stil geben'.
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Freier Wille ohne Fatum ist ebenso wenig denkbar, wie Geist ohne Reelles, Gutes ohne Böses.
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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
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Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.
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Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!
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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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The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.
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Love is blind, friends close their eyes.
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I no longer want to walk on worn soles.
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What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.
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The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.
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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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If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
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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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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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Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.
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I should not believe in a God who does not dance.
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The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.
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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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It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.
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That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.
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In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.