Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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In music the passions enjoy themselves.
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Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.
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The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.
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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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Glaubt es mir! – das Geheimnis, um die größte Fruchtbarkeit und den größten Genuß vom Dasein einzuernten, heißt: gefährlich leben!
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Discontent is the seed of ethics.
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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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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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Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.
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To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.
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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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Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
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No artist tolerates reality.
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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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Possessions are usually diminished by possession.
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Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".
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But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?
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Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
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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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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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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
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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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Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.
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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.