Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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There they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.
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We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.
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A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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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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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
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Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!
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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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The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.
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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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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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Eins ist not. - Seinem Charakter 'Stil geben'.
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Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.
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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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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
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About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.
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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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I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.
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There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.
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This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!
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The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.
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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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We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.
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Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
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History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.