Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
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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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One has attained to mastery when one neither goes wrong nor hesitates in the performance.
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
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The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!
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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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The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.
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You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?
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'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.
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The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.
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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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Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.
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Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.
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Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.
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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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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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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
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All great artists and thinkers are great workers.
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Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.
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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.
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On the heights it is warmer than people in the valleys suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.