Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.
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There's no defense against stupidity.
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
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The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.
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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
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The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
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Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!
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A Path to Equality. - A few hours of mountain climbing turn a rascal and a saint into two pretty similar creatures. Fatigue is the shortest way to Equality and Fraternity-and, in the end, Liberty will surrender to Sleep.
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We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption; but how near or distant that is, nobody knows - not even God.
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In music the passions enjoy themselves.
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Beware of spitting against the wind!
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What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.
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One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.
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I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.
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A married philosopher belongs in comedy, that is my proposition-and as for that exception, Socrates-the malicious Socrates, it would seem, married ironically, just to demonstrate this proposition.
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If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.
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Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.
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Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.
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Discontent is the seed of ethics.
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Man must become better and more evil.
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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
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Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!
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Invisible threads are the strongest ties.