Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
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One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
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... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered.
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At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.
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Die Länge des Tages. - Wenn man viel hineinzustecken hat, so hat ein Tag hundert Taschen.
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A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.
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It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.
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The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.
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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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There are no facts, only interpretations.
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Only sick music makes money today.
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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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Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
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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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Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.
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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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The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.
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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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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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It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.
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It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.
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Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.
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The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom.
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I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.