Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
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I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.
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The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.
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Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.
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I have forgotten my umbrella.
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We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.
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Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
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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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Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!
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Woman was God's second mistake.
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If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother – love there is a good deal of curiosity.
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Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.
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Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.
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And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.
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There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear".
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Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers.
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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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There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.
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With all great deceivers there is a noteworthy occurrence to which they owe their power. In the actual act of deception... they are overcome by belief in themselves. It is this which then speaks so miraculously and compellingly to those who surround them.
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All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.
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Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.