Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.
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Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.
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I am almost equal to a shadow.
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There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.
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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
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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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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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Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
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Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.
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One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.
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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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Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.
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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!
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Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?
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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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Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
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Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?
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Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.
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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
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To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
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Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
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Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.
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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.