Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.
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Philosophy leaps ahead on tiny toeholds; hope and intuition lend wings to its feet. Calculating reason lumbers heavily behind, looking for better footholds, for reason too wants to reach that alluring goal which its divine comrade has long since reached.
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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
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All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
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Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
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All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish. Well, I had to take to Wagner...
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Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
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One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
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Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
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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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With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.
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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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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.
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One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.
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Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.
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Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
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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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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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Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?
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The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.
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Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.
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Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?
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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.