Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
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We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?
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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.
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Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.
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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
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Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.
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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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The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
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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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The last Christian died on a cross.
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This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.
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Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.
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It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.
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Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
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Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.
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A thing can only live through a pious illusion.
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
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The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.
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Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.