Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.
Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.
The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.
The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.
And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!
Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering
The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.
If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.
We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.
What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.
To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.
How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?
What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.
All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).
