Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
-
One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
-
For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.
-
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.
-
Only sick music makes money today.
-
In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.
-
Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.
-
The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.
-
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.
-
No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.
-
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.
-
There are no facts, only interpretations.
-
Darum hat Lessing, der ehrlichste theoretische Mensch, es auszusprechen gewagt, dass ihm mehr am Suchen der Wahrheit als an ihr selbst gelegen sei...
-
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
-
This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.
-
Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
-
Feinde der Wahrheit. - Überzeugungen sind gefährlichere Feinde der Wahrheit, als Lügen.
-
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.
-
I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
-
In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.
-
Wie? ist der Mensch nur ein Fehlgriff Gottes? Oder Gott nur ein Fehlgriff des Menschen?
-
Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
-
The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' - it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere...
-
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.
-
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.