Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.
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We are always in our own company.
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Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.
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Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts.
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What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!
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Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.
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In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.
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I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.
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You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.
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And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.
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Art is the great stimulus to life.
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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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I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
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All great artists and thinkers are great workers.
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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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The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.
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One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
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The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.
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At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.
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The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
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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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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.