Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
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Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
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Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.
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Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.
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Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief.
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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.
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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
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Many find their heart when they have lost their head.
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We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.
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We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.
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He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.
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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
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Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.
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All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.
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In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.
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How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.
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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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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?