Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.
The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.
Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.
What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.
The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.
Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.
In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.
To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.
Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.
Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.
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.
The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.
The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.
Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.
Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.
Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.
The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.
An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.
Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.
Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.
A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.
With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.
Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?
Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.
Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.
It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.
What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.
Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.
The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.
The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.
