Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
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Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.
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Vorrecht der Grösse. - Es ist das Vorrecht der Grösse, mit geringen Gaben hoch zu beglücken.
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The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.
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We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.
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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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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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Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
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Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.
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You shall become the person you are.
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The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.
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You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!
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As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.
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Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?
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You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?
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Better know nothing than half-know many things.
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.
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Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!
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However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.
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Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.
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Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.
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As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.
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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.