Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
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We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
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What is life? A continuous praise and blame.
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We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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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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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
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Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.
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Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live.
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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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Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.
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The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' - it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere...
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However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.
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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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I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.
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When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.
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»Glaube« heißt Nicht-wissen-wollen.
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Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
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So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.
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Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.
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We only hear questions that we are able to answer.
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From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?
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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
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The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.