Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love so that it may be removed once and for all from the wicked game of change: for love dreads change even more than annihilation.
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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
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Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
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Art is the great stimulus to life.
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Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.
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Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.
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Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.
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Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
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I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.
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Whoever wishes to justify [Philosophy] must show … to what ends a healthy culture uses and has used philosophy.
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It is the good war that hallows every cause.
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Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
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There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
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Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.
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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
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One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.
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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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That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.
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I am almost equal to a shadow.
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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.
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You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking.
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One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."