Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.
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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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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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Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.
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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
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Philosophy leaps ahead on tiny toeholds; hope and intuition lend wings to its feet. Calculating reason lumbers heavily behind, looking for better footholds, for reason too wants to reach that alluring goal which its divine comrade has long since reached.
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For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.
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Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
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Wie finden wir uns selbst wieder? Wie kann sich der Mensch kennen? Er ist eine dunkle und verhüllte Sache; und wenn der Hase sieben Häute hat, so kann der Mensch sich sieben mal siebzig abziehn und wird noch nicht sagen können: »das bist du nun wirklich, das ist nicht mehr Schale«.
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Existence begins in every instant.
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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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We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.
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In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.
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The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.
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What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.
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Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.
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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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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.
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One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!
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Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.
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Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.
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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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Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.