Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.
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For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.
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Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.
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If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants.
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No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.
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Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.
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You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!
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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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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.
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To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
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There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.
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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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Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
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The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.
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Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.
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A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.
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Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!
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I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.
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As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.
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From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.
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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
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Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?
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The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' - it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere...
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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.