Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.
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Love, too, has to be learned.
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Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.
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You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!
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Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
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Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.
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Gott ist tot! aber so wie die Art der Menschen ist, wird es vielleicht noch Jahrtausende lang Höhlen geben, in denen man seinen Schatten zeigt. - Und wir - Wir müssen auch noch seinen Schatten besiegen.
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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.
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The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
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The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.
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Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?
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The real question is: How much truth can I stand?
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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
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A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.
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Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.
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One has attained to mastery when one neither goes wrong nor hesitates in the performance.
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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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In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search.
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Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.