Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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He who does not lie does not know what truth is.
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Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.
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Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
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Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
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Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.
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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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On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
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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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How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?
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Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.
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Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
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Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.
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Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live.
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»Glaube« heißt Nicht-wissen-wollen.
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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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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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We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!
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Love is not consolation. It is light.
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Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.
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The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace.
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How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy.