Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.
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I have somehow something like 'influence' … In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence … my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra … has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.
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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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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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I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.
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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
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Gegen die Langeweile kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
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A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.
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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.
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This is the antinomy: Insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence.
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Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself.
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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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One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
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Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
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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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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.
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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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Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.
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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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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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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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It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.
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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.