Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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).
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.
My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.
If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.
Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.
Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.
Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.
The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.
People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!
Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.
