Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.
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Morality in Europe today is herd-morality.
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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
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Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.
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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
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The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.
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In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.
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When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.
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It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.
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In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.
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Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
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Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!
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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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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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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.
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I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.
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A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.
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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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In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.
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Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.
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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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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.