Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."
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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
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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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Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.
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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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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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Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.
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The final reward of the dead - to die no more.
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And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!
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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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Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.
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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 spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.
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Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.
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One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
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We are all afraid of the truth.
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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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Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?
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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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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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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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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"?
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One has to know the size of one's stomach.
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Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.