Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Darum hat Lessing, der ehrlichste theoretische Mensch, es auszusprechen gewagt, dass ihm mehr am Suchen der Wahrheit als an ihr selbst gelegen sei...
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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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Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
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The last Christian died on a cross.
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Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
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The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.
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Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.
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Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.
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Do you believe then that the sciences would have arisen and grown up if the sorcerers, alchemists, astrologers and witches had not been their forerunners; those who, with their promisings and foreshadowings, had first to create a thirst, a hunger, and a taste for hidden and forbidden powers?
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In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.
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One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
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However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.
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On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!
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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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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
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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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All words are prejudices.
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In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.
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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 humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.
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I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely-that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come.
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Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.
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A thing can only live through a pious illusion.