Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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.
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Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.
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… was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker
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I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
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When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.
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Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts.
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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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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.
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The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.
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Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?
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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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This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.
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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
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One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
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Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.
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Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.
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No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.
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I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.
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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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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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Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
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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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Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.