Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.
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The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.
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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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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.
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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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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
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From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.
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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
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Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.
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Many find their heart when they have lost their head.
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Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.
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A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.
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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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Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.
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Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.
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One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.
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We are all afraid of the truth.
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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.
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We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!
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Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.
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...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.