Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.
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Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.
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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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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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The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence.
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Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief.
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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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The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
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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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For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
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Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.
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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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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
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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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Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.
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Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.
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Plato was a bore.
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To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
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Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.
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We only hear questions that we are able to answer.
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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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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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In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.