Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight.
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Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.
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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 empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.
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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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God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?
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Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself.
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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
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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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Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.
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We are all afraid of the truth.
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We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
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In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.
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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
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The noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he judges 'what harms me is harmful in itself', he knows himself to be that which in general accords honour to things, he creates values.
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Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.
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Plato was a bore.
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Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
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By losing your goal, You have lost your way.
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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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Love is not consolation. It is light.
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A thing can only live through a pious illusion.