Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
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Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.
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The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence.
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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.
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Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.
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Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?
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Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.
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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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People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.
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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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Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live.
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
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Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.
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The lie is a condition of life.
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A thing can only live through a pious illusion.
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The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.
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We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.
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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
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Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
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Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.
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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.