Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.
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Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.
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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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Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.
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Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.
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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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Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.
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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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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
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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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To have and to want more that is life.
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Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.
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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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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts.
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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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Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.
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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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We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.
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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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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
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Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
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Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.
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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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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.