Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
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The last Christian died on a cross.
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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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The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.
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Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.
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I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.
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It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?
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We only hear questions that we are able to answer.
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This is the antinomy: Insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence.
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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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If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.
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A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.
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Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).
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My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.
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And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.
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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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Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.
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Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.
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The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
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Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure; ...
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Gegen die Langeweile kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
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Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.
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People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.
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Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.