Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
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Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.
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When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.
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He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.
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How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?
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We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.
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There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.
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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
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Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.
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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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One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
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The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.
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Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.
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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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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.
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If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.
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One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.
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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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How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.
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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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Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
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This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.