Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
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Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.
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The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.
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Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.
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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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As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.
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Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.
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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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
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One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."
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In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
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Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.
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Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
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In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.
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Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
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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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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
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Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.
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The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life...three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty - all belonging to the oldest festal joys.
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But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.
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One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.