Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.
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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
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You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!
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The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.
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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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To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.
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All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.
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Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.
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Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas well as by the feeling of an incapacity for it (Min this respect a typical romantic!).... Fundamentally, Carlyle is an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one.
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.
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We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.
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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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We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.
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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
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The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
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The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
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What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.
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We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
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In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.
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Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.
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Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
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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.