Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
-
A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.
-
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«.
-
We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.
-
That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.
-
Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.
-
Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.
-
What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.
-
Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.
-
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.
-
Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.
-
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
-
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.
-
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
-
One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."
-
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.
-
I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.
-
A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.
-
Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?
-
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.
-
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
-
It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.
-
When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.
-
If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
-
Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.