Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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»Glaube« heißt Nicht-wissen-wollen.
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
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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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He who does not lie does not know what truth is.
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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
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We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
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Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.
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This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.
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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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How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?
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Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.
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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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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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What is life? A continuous praise and blame.
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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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Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.
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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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The hour-hand of life.
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Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure; ...
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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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The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence.
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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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The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.