Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.
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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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I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.
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Es gibt kein öderes und widrigeres Geschöpf in der Natur als den Menschen, welcher seinem Genius ausgewichen ist und nun nach rechts und nach links, nach rückwärts und überallhin schielt. Man darf einen solchen Menschen zuletzt gar nicht mehr angreifen, denn er ist ganz Außenseite ohne Kern, ein anbrüchiges, gemaltes, aufgebauschtes Gewand.
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Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.
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Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.
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All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.
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In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
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Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
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The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.
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The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.
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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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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
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Man is more ape than many of the apes.
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There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.
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Love, too, has to be learned.
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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
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I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.
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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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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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In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
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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.