Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.
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After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.
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We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption; but how near or distant that is, nobody knows - not even God.
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When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.
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Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".
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Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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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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Possessions are usually diminished by possession.
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Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.
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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.
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We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
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One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.
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Man must become better and more evil.
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We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.
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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
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What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent.
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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
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Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.
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Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.
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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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We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.
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He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.
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Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.