Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.
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In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.
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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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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!
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When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.
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From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.
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Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.
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Whatever has value in our world now does not have value in itself, according to its nature - nature is always value-less, but has been given value at some time, as a present - and it was we who gave and bestowed it.
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It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.
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Morality in Europe today is herd-morality.
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I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
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The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.
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Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.
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I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.
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Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.
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We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.
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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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Den Andern zum Vorbild. - Wer ein gutes Beispiel geben will, muss seiner Tugend einen Gran Narrheit zusetzen: dann ahmt man nach und erhebt sich zugleich über den Nachgeahmten, - was die Menschen lieben.
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There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
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How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?
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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.