Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Was sagt dein Gewissen? - 'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'
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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
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Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.
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Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.
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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
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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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Whatever has value in our world now does not have value in itself, according to its nature - nature is always value-less, but has been given value at some time, as a present - and it was we who gave and bestowed it.
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If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.
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Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.
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We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.
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Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
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Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
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Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.
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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
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That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.
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The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.
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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
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Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
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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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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
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There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.
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You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.