Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.
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Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction.
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Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.
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The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.
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No artist tolerates reality.
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Discontent is the seed of ethics.
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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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Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.
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Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.
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The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
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Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
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Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
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Liberalismus: auf deutsch Heerden-Verthierung ...
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Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.
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I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.
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Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.
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Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.
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To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.
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Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.
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In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.
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You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.
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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"?.