Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.
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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
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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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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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We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.
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The pure soul is a pure lie.
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In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.
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What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.
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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
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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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It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.
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In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.
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Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.
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The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.
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I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.
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In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.
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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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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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The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.
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From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.
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Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!