Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.
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Woman was God's second mistake.
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Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas well as by the feeling of an incapacity for it (Min this respect a typical romantic!).... Fundamentally, Carlyle is an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one.
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The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
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Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
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Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!
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Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
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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.
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We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
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Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.
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Love, too, has to be learned.
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The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.
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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
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For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.
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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
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Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty - he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world - alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.
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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
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If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?
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The real question is: How much truth can I stand?
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Better know nothing than half-know many things.
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As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.
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Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.
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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.