Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.
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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
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I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
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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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Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
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The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.
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Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.
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A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.
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Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.
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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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Um aber unsere Klassiker so falsch beurteilen und so beschimpfend ehren zu können, muß man sie gar nicht mehr kennen: und dies ist die allgemeine Tatsache. Denn sonst müßte man wissen, daß es nur eine Art gibt, sie zu ehren, nämlich dadurch, daß man fortfährt, in ihrem Geiste und mit ihrem Mute zu suchen, und dabei nicht müde wird.
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Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of 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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… was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
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The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.
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Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.
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For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.
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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
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In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.
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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.