Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
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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 saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.
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Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
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That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.
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It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.
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I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.
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Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight.
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Einige werden posthum geboren.
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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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You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.
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What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
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I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.
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How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?
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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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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.
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Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
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Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.
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I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.
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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.
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Master-morality and Slave-morality.
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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts.