Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.
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What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.
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I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.
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Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
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Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
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The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
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'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.
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Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.
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Great intellects are skeptical.
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I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.
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You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!
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Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.
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There they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.
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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
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Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.
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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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Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
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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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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
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Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.
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He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.