Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
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The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.
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All words are prejudices.
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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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What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.
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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.
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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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I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
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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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It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.
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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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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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Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself.
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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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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
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The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.
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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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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"?