Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.
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There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.
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Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.
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Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.
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Oh wie ferne war mir damals gerade dieser ganze Resignationismus!
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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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We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!
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People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
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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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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
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What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.
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For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.
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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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Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.
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Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.
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Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.
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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.
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Love is not consolation. It is light.
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I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.
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We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
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Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
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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.