Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.
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Thinking evil is making evil.
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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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The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.
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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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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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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
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Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.
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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«.
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This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.
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I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.
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Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.
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I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.
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The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.
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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
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Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
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However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.
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It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!
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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
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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.
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Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.
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Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.