Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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.
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You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.
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Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!
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The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.
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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
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Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainländer, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize).
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A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.
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The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.
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Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.
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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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And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.
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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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Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.
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In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.
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On every parable you ride to every truth.
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Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased.
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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Only sick music makes money today.
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I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.
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You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!
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He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!
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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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A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.