Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The hour-hand of life.
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Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.
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Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.
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People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.
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Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
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The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.
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Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.
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Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.
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He who does not lie does not know what truth is.
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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
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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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Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
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Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.
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Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure; ...
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One has to know the size of one's stomach.
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Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.
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The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.
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A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.
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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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What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!
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Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!
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Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.
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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”?