Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.
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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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"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.
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A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .
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Morality in Europe today is herd-morality.
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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
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Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.
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If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother – love there is a good deal of curiosity.
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We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.
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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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Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.
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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.
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Philosophy leaps ahead on tiny toeholds; hope and intuition lend wings to its feet. Calculating reason lumbers heavily behind, looking for better footholds, for reason too wants to reach that alluring goal which its divine comrade has long since reached.
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Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.
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You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.
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The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!
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The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.
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The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.
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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
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Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
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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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Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.
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Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.