Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.
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Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
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A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.
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It is the good war that hallows every cause.
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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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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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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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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.
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What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.
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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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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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Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
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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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There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
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The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
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Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
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The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence - here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for 'laws.'
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The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.
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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
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One has attained to mastery when one neither goes wrong nor hesitates in the performance.
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You shall become the person you are.
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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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The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.