Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.
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Every one who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
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The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.
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When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.
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The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.
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Great intellects are skeptical.
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Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.
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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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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
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Was that life? Well then, once more!
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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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One never perishes through anybody but oneself.
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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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One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.
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The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.
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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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In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.
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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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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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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
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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.