Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.
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The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!
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Only sick music makes money today.
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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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The English are a nation of consummate cant.
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Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.
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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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Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
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In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.
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This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.
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Darum hat Lessing, der ehrlichste theoretische Mensch, es auszusprechen gewagt, dass ihm mehr am Suchen der Wahrheit als an ihr selbst gelegen sei...
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A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.
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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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Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.
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Wie? ist der Mensch nur ein Fehlgriff Gottes? Oder Gott nur ein Fehlgriff des Menschen?
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Feinde der Wahrheit. - Überzeugungen sind gefährlichere Feinde der Wahrheit, als Lügen.
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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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Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
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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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The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
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Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
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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.