Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.
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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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Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.
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I should not believe in a God who does not dance.
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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
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Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
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There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.
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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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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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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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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty
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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.
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You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.
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Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
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What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.
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I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.
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The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.
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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
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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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The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.
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The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.
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No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.