Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
-
Love is not consolation. It is light.
-
The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.
-
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.
-
We only hear questions that we are able to answer.
-
My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.
-
There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
-
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.
-
Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.
-
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.
-
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
-
In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.
-
Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.
-
The last Christian died on a cross.
-
Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.
-
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).
-
Oh wie ferne war mir damals gerade dieser ganze Resignationismus!
-
Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.
-
We are all afraid of the truth.
-
In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.
-
In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
-
What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.
-
Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.
-
On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
-
Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.