Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.
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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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Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?
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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.
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We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.
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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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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
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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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Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
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Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?
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Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
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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 knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.
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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
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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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He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.
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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.
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Schatten in der Flamme. - Die Flamme ist sich selber nicht so hell, als den Anderen, denen sie leuchtet: so auch der Weise.
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The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.
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I should not believe in a God who does not dance.
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He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.
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Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.