Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
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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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When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.
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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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There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.
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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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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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Es gibt in der Welt einen einzigen Weg, auf welchem niemand gehen kann, außer dir: wohin er führt? Frage nicht, gehe ihn.
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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.
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You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?
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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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I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.
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Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.
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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!
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A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.
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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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We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.
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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.