Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.
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Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.
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When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.
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We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.
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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
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The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.
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The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
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A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
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Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.
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What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
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School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.
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How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
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Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
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Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?
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Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
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The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.
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The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it.
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Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.
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Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
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Wir haben uns über unser Dasein vor uns selbst zu verantworten; folglich wollen wir auch die wirklichen Steuermänner dieses Daseins abgeben und nicht zulassen, daß unsre Existenz einer gedankenlosen Zufälligkeit gleiche.
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He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.