Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
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Freier Wille ohne Fatum ist ebenso wenig denkbar, wie Geist ohne Reelles, Gutes ohne Böses.
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Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.
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At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.
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Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.
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Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.
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Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.
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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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You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking.
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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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In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
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The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.
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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.
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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
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We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
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Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.
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Become who you are!
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Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.
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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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Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.
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How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.
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Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.