Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.
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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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It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.
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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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Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?
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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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In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.
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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
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A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.
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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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For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
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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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We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.
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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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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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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.
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To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.
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If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
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Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
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That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.
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Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
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I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, I would rather be a satyr than a saint.