Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.
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I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.
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Humility has the toughest hide.
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Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.
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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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The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.
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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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A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.
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On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!
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Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.
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Many find their heart when they have lost their head.
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At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.
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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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Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.
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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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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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Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.
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The hour-hand of life.
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Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.
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Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.
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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
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The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
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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.