Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
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We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.
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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
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Einige werden posthum geboren.
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All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.
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Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
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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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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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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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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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Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.
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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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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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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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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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A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.
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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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My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.
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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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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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Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!