Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.
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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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Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.
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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.
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Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.
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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
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Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.
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What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.
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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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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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Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?
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Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.
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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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Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
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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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Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).
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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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Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live.
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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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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.