Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!
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Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.
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Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.
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Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.
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Was sagt dein Gewissen? - 'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'
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After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.
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We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
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Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him!
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No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.
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If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion.
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What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into 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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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
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Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.
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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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Every profound spirit needs a mask.
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Es gibt kein öderes und widrigeres Geschöpf in der Natur als den Menschen, welcher seinem Genius ausgewichen ist und nun nach rechts und nach links, nach rückwärts und überallhin schielt. Man darf einen solchen Menschen zuletzt gar nicht mehr angreifen, denn er ist ganz Außenseite ohne Kern, ein anbrüchiges, gemaltes, aufgebauschtes Gewand.
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How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
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How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.
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Woman was God's second mistake.
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Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.
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We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.
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One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.