Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.
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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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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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The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not.
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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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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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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
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Only sick music makes money today.
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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
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"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?
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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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I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.
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Sleep is no mean art.
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What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.
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Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?
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Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.
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There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.
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However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty - I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.
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The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' - it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere...
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Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.