Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
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You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.
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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
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Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.
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Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.
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Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.
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In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.
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I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.
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Possessions are usually diminished by possession.
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No artist tolerates reality.
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The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.
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We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.
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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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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
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Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!
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A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
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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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After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.
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Glaubt es mir! – das Geheimnis, um die größte Fruchtbarkeit und den größten Genuß vom Dasein einzuernten, heißt: gefährlich leben!
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I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.
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Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!
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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.