Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
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Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.
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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
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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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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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It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
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And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.
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All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).
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It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.
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The venerability, reliability, and utility of truth is something which a person demonstrates for himself from the contrast with the liar, whom no one trusts and everyone excludes. As a 'rational' being, he now places his behavior under the control of abstractions. He will no longer tolerate being carried away by sudden impressions, by intuitions.
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He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!
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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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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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Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
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There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.
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How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.
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As though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!
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It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.
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Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
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Those who create are hard of heart.
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The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.