Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
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Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.
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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.
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Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'
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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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Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.
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"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.
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One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.
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What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
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We can destroy only as creators.
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Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.
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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.
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We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.
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The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.
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Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.
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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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Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.
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The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!
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A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.
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Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.
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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
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Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
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One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.
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Only fool! Only poet!Merely speaking colorfully,From fools' masks shouting colorfully,Climbing about on deceptive word-bridges,On misleading rainbows,Between false heavensRambling, lurking -Only fool! Only poet!