Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.
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They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
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A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.
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Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.
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Better know nothing than half-know many things.
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The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.
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In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.
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One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.
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When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.
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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
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There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
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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.
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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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How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.
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The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.
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What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
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All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
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If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants.
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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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The possibility has been established for the production of...a master race, the future 'masters of the earth'...made to endure for millennia - a higher kind of men who...employ democratic Europe as their most pliant and supple instrument for getting hold of the destinies of the earth.
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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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As though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!
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The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.
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We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.