Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.
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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
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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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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
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The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.
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Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.
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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
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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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We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.
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Der Mensch der Erkenntniss muss nicht nur seine Feinde lieben, er muss auch seine Freunde hassen können.
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
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Pity makes suffering contagious.
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Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
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Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
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The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
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Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.
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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
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Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.