Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
-
Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
-
Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.
-
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.
-
We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.
-
The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.
-
Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.
-
Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.
-
One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
-
By losing your goal, You have lost your way.
-
When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.
-
A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.
-
In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.
-
From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.
-
A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.
-
The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.
-
I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.
-
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
-
Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.
-
Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself.
-
It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?
-
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.
-
One has to know the size of one's stomach.
-
Not one of these nobly equipped young men has escaped the restless, exhausting, confusing, debilitating crisis of education. ... He feels that he cannot guide himself, cannot help himself—and then he dives hopelessly into the world of everyday life and daily routine, he is immersed in the most trivial activity possible, and his limbs grow weak and weary.
-
There are no facts, only interpretations.