Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.
Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how thespirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.
Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!
Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.
A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up."―Epigrams and Interludes, Section 79
The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly, surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus one should learn to die.Friedrich Nietzsche - thus spoke zarathustra.
The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.
...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.
Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.
Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.
O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part!
All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
Knowledge kills action action requires the veils of illusion.
Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.
They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!
In large States public education will always be extremely mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is at best only mediocre.
None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?
All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life.
No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.
When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.
Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man enough will save the woman in woman.
A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.
Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.
There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.
Our way is upward, from the species across to the super-species. But the degenerate mind which says ‘All for me’ is a horror to us.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.
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Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence.
But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain
If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory.
It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.
My world has just become perfect, midnight is also noonday, pain is also joy, a curse is also a blessing, the night is also a sun – be gone, or you will learn: a wise man is also a fool.
This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator – that is what I once thought the world.