Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.
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Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.
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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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We can destroy only as creators.
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God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.
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And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!
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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
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In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
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In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.
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One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.
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Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.
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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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There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.
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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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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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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
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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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He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.
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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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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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Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.