Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
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Humility has the toughest hide.
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All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.
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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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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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He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.
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To have and to want more that is life.
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The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.
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Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.
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This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
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Einige werden posthum geboren.
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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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Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
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I love those who do not know how to live for today.
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We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.
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Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief.
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We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.
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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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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.