Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I have somehow something like 'influence' … In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence … my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra … has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.
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A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.
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In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
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He who does not lie does not know what truth is.
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The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.
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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.
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The doctrine of equality! … But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice … 'Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal' - that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, 'never make the unequal equal'.
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Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.
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I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.
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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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In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.
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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
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The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence.
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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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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.
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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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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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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.
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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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The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.
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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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From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?
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Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.