Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.
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The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.
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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
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Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.
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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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If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.
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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 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' - it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere...
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Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.
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It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.
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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
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Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.
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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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We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.
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In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.
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The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!
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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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But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.
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The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence - here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for 'laws.'
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It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.
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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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Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?
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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
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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.