Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
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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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I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.
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Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?
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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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Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
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In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
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Daß man wird, was man ist, setzt voraus, daß man nicht im entferntesten ahnt, was man ist.
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Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.
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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
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A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.
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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 deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
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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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The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.
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Existence begins in every instant.
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Did you ever say "yes" to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.
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But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.
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Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.
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The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
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It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.