Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.
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Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.
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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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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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In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
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The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.
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The lie is a condition of life.
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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
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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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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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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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Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.
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Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.
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Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.
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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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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
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Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
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Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.
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And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.
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If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.
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At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.
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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!