Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
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One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
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In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.
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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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Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.
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If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.
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It is the good war that hallows every cause.
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The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.
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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.
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The real question is: How much truth can I stand?
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Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.
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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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As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.
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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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Art is the great stimulus to life.
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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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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.
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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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Whoever wishes to justify [Philosophy] must show … to what ends a healthy culture uses and has used philosophy.
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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
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The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.
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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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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.