Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Darum hat Lessing, der ehrlichste theoretische Mensch, es auszusprechen gewagt, dass ihm mehr am Suchen der Wahrheit als an ihr selbst gelegen sei...
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For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.
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Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. And in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew.
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The pure soul is a pure lie.
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It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.
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Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.
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A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.
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In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
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I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.
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The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.
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All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
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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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We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.
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There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.
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Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?
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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
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Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.
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It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.
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Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
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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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All great artists and thinkers are great workers.
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Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
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Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.