Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?
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Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'
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The universe without music would be madness.
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
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Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.
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We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.
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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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After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.
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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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If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved.
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The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.
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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs.
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Woman was God's second mistake.
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Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.
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I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
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And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.
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What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
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Das Empörende an einer individuellen Lebensart. - Alle sehr individuellen Maassregeln des Lebens bringen die Menschen gegen Den, der sie ergreift, auf; sie fühlen sich durch die aussergewöhnliche Behandlung, welche jener sich angedeihen lässt, erniedrigt, als gewöhnliche Wesen.
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A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
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The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
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It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
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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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What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.