Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.
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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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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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Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.
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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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A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.
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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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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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The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
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»Glaube« heißt Nicht-wissen-wollen.
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Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.
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People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.
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Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
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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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Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!
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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
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The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence.
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This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.
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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
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Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.
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Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
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Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.
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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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There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.