Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
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Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
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I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, I would rather be a satyr than a saint.
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Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
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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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One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
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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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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.
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Art is the great stimulus to life.
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One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
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Freier Wille ohne Fatum ist ebenso wenig denkbar, wie Geist ohne Reelles, Gutes ohne Böses.
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Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
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About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.
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I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.
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What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.
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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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I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.
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Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.
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Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.