Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?
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I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.
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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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Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.
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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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Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.
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Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.
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The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
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Become who you are!
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And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!
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How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.
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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
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Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.
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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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Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.
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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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In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.
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Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.
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All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
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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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All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.
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To have and to want more that is life.
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When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.