Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.
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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
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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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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.
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No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.
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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.
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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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Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.
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Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.
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We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.
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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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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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From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.
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Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.
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To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle which even the apes might subscribe; for it has been said that in devising bizarre cruelties they anticipate man and are, as it were his 'prelude.'
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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
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No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
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One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!
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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
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Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.