Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
-
Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.
-
Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.
-
One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
-
The hour-hand of life.
-
... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered.
-
Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.
-
But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?
-
Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.
-
Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.
-
My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
-
The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
-
The final reward of the dead - to die no more.
-
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.
-
There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.
-
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.
-
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
-
If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.
-
Feinde der Wahrheit. - Überzeugungen sind gefährlichere Feinde der Wahrheit, als Lügen.
-
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.
-
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.
-
Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.
-
I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.
-
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.
-
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.