Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Morality in Europe today is herd-morality.
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Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
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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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We can destroy only as creators.
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The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.
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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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We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
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As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.
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Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!
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Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.
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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
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Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.
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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
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Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).
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Woman was God's second mistake.
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Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
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I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.
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What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?
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As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.
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What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.
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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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Man büßt es theuer, unsterblich zu sein: man stirbt dafür mehrere Male bei Lebzeiten.
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Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.