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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Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.
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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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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.
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Did you ever say "yes" to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.
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Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.
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Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.
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There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
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But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.
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We are always in our own company.
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And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!
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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
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Become who you are!
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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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And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.
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This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.
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Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.
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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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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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The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell':
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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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I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
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A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.
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One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.