Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
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One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
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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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Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.
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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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Man is more ape than many of the apes.
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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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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
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Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.
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When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.
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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 lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
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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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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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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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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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It is the good war that hallows every cause.
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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
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We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
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The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.
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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.
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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
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Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!