Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.
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Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
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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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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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Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.
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In music the passions enjoy themselves.
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Glaubt es mir! – das Geheimnis, um die größte Fruchtbarkeit und den größten Genuß vom Dasein einzuernten, heißt: gefährlich leben!
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I and me are always too deeply in conversation.
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No artist tolerates reality.
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The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.
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Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.
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Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.
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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 that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.
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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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The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.
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Every past is worth condemning.
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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.
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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
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Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.