Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.
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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
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I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.
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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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Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.
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You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.
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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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Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
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Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.
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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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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
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What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.
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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
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In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.
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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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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
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My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
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In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
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It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.
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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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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 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.