Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Many find their heart when they have lost their head.
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It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.
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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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At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.
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Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.
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The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.
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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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The doctrine of equality! … But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice … 'Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal' - that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, 'never make the unequal equal'.
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What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.
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Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).
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Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
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We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
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Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.
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Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.
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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.
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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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However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.
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Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.
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He who does not lie does not know what truth is.
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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.
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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.
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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"?
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The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.
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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.