Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.
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Gegen die Langeweile kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
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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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A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.
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We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
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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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Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.
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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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Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.
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You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.
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Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.
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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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There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
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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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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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What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.
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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
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Love is not consolation. It is light.
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By losing your goal, You have lost your way.
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Plato was a bore.
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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.