Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
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You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.
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Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!
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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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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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Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness).
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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
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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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Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.
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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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Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.
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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
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Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.
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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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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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It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.
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Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.
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In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.
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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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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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The hour-hand of life.
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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
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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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We have art in order not to die of the truth.