Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
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One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
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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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Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
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'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.
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Every profound spirit needs a mask.
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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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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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The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.
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The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.
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Whoever wishes to justify [Philosophy] must show … to what ends a healthy culture uses and has used philosophy.
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I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.
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Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.
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There they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.
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Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.
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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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The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.
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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.
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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
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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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After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.
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Better know nothing than half-know many things.