Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
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The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.
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Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.
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Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.
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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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We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.
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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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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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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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A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.
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Einige werden posthum geboren.
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Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.
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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
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I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.
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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 grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
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Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.
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What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
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Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.
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Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.
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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.
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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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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
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With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.