Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.
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It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?
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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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My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
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My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.
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Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
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From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.
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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
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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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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
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One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
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Gegen die Langeweile kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
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Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
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Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.
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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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Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
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This is the antinomy: Insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence.
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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
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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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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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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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Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.
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Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.