Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
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This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.
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I and me are always too deeply in conversation.
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We obtain the concept, as we do the form, by overlooking what is individual and actual; whereas nature is acquainted with no forms and no concepts, and likewise with no species, but only with an X which remains inaccessible and undefinable for us.
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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
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Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.
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A married philosopher belongs in comedy, that is my proposition-and as for that exception, Socrates-the malicious Socrates, it would seem, married ironically, just to demonstrate this proposition.
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Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.
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In music the passions enjoy themselves.
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Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!
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To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.
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Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.
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Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
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The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
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The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.
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There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
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The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.
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We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.
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The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.
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Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.
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Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.
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What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.
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If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
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The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.