Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.
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In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.
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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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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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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
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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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The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned.
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The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.
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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
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Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!
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Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.
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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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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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Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.
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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
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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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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 is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!
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But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?
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Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.
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I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.
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The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence.
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And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!
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Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.