Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.
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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.
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It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.
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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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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
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We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
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Existence begins in every instant.
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Feinde der Wahrheit. - Überzeugungen sind gefährlichere Feinde der Wahrheit, als Lügen.
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Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.
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The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.
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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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Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?
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Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.
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By losing your goal, You have lost your way.
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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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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.
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Did you ever say "yes" to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.
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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.
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Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.
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Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.
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One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
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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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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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The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.