Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.
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Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.
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The real question is: How much truth can I stand?
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From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.
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Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.
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Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
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A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.
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When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.
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All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.
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[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.
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The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.
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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
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"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?
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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
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Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.
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Das Leben als Ertrag des Lebens. - Der Mensch mag sich noch so weit mit seiner Erkenntniss ausrecken, sich selber noch so objectiv vorkommen: zuletzt trägt er doch Nichts davon, als seine eigene Biographie.
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What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?
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And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.
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The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.
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How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!
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Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.
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Dionysus:Be clever, Ariadne! …You have little ears; you have my ears:Put a clever word in them! -Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? …I am your labyrinth …
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To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.
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Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.