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Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.
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Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
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Love is not consolation. It is light.
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I love those who do not know how to live for today.
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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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To have and to want more that is life.
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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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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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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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He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.
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Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.
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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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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
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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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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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He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.
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A thing can only live through a pious illusion.
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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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This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
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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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What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.
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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.