Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The hour-hand of life.
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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
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Feinde der Wahrheit. - Überzeugungen sind gefährlichere Feinde der Wahrheit, als Lügen.
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... 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.
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Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. And in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew.
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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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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
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The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
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The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.
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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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Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.
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The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
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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.
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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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Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
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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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One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
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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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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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The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.
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I have somehow something like 'influence' … In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence … my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra … has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.
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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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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.