Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!
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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
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Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?
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A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.
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Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.
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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
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Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love so that it may be removed once and for all from the wicked game of change: for love dreads change even more than annihilation.
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What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.
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Become who you are!
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
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Existence begins in every instant.
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Wie finden wir uns selbst wieder? Wie kann sich der Mensch kennen? Er ist eine dunkle und verhüllte Sache; und wenn der Hase sieben Häute hat, so kann der Mensch sich sieben mal siebzig abziehn und wird noch nicht sagen können: »das bist du nun wirklich, das ist nicht mehr Schale«.
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Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.
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He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.
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Wie? ist der Mensch nur ein Fehlgriff Gottes? Oder Gott nur ein Fehlgriff des Menschen?
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It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.
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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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Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.
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Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.
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God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?
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People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.
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The final reward of the dead - to die no more.
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Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.