Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.
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The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
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Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
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Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.
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For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.
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It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.
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Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.
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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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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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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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So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
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The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life...three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty - all belonging to the oldest festal joys.
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Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.
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There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.
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One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.
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It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.
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Only sick music makes money today.
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What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
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In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
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Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
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I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.
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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.