Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
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Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.
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The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.
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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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Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.
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Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.
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One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.
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Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.
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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
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Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.
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Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.
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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
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I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.
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We are all afraid of the truth.
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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.
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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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Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
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It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.
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Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?
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How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.
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Many find their heart when they have lost their head.
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Art is the great stimulus to life.
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Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.
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Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.