Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.
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The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.
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Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.
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A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
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Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.
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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
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Love, too, has to be learned.
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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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As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.
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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
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Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.
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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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Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.
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Morality in Europe today is herd-morality.
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What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.
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Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.
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We can destroy only as creators.
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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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As though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!
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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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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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It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.