Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.
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Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.
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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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Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live.
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The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
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A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.
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»Glaube« heißt Nicht-wissen-wollen.
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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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To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
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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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The lie is a condition of life.
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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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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
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The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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Einige werden posthum geboren.
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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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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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What is life? A continuous praise and blame.
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It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
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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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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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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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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.