Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.
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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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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
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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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Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
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For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.
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Wie? ist der Mensch nur ein Fehlgriff Gottes? Oder Gott nur ein Fehlgriff des Menschen?
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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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What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.
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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
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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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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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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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Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.
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However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.
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Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.
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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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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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He who does not lie does not know what truth is.
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It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!
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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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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
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All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish. Well, I had to take to Wagner...