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Biographical Information
Date of Birth: Oct 15, 1844
Date of Death: Aug 25, 1900 Nationality: German Type: Philosopher Tags: existentialist |
Famous Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
And woe to that fatal curiosity which might one day have the power to peer out and down through a crack in the chamber of consciousness and then suspect that man is sustained in the indifference of his ignorance by that which is pitiless, greedy, insatiable, and murderous-as if hanging in dreams on the back of a tiger.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Art is the proper task of life.
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
Women are quite capable of entering into a friendship with a man, but to keep it going that takes a little physical antipathy as well.
Woman was God's second mistake.
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Biographical Information
Date of Birth: Oct 15, 1844
Date of Death: Aug 25, 1900 Nationality: German Type: Philosopher Tags: existentialist |
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