Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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.
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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.
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You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.
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Die Länge des Tages. - Wenn man viel hineinzustecken hat, so hat ein Tag hundert Taschen.
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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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Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.
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Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
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One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
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Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.
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Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.
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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
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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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Feinde der Wahrheit. - Überzeugungen sind gefährlichere Feinde der Wahrheit, als Lügen.
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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
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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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We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.
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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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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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Every word is a prejudice.