Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
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Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.
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It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.
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What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.
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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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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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All words are prejudices.
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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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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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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
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Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.
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Our institutions are no good any more: on that there is universal agreement. However, it is not their fault but ours. Once we have lost all the instincts out of which institutions grow, we lose institutions altogether because we are no longer good for them.
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Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.
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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.
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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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Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.
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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
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When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.
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There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
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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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In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.
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Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
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Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.
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We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.