Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.
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Aus der Erfahrung. - Die Unvernunft einer Sache ist kein Grund gegen ihr Dasein, vielmehr eine Bedingung desselben.
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Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.
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Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.
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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
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A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
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I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.
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There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
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Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
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So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
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We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
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Possessions are usually diminished by possession.
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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
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Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.
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Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.
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Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!
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There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.
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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
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Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?
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Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.
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I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.
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He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.