Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature.
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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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What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?
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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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Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
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Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
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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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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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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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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
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The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.
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A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.
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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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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
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There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.
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This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.
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As though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!
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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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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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"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.
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All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.
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All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.
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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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Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.