Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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He who does not lie does not know what truth is.
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Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.
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Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.
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Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.
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Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.
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Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.
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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.
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How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy.
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And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.
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My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
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Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.
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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
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Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.
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»Glaube« heißt Nicht-wissen-wollen.
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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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Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!
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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
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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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To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
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If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.
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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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Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.