Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
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All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.
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Love is not consolation. It is light.
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What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.
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The lie is a condition of life.
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Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.
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Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
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Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
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Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.
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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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Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.
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The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned.
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We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.
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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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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
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This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
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Humility has the toughest hide.
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The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.
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We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.
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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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Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.
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Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.
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From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?