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8/8/11

Friedrich Wilhelm NIETZSCHE Quotes


“A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instincts a chance.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

"Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!" ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

"And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!" ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"Aphorisms are the forms of eternity." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster. For when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"Christianity grew out of an utterly false soil, in which all nature, every natural value, every reality had the deepest instincts of the ruling class against it; it was a form of deadly hostility to reality which has never been surpassed." ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist,

"Christianity makes suffering contagious." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. The latter perhaps wounds his vanity; but the former wounds his heart, his sympathy, which always says: 'Ah, why would you also have as hard a time of it as I have?'" ~Friedrich Nietzsche

“For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write” ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

"Great intellects are skeptical." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who cannot obey himself will be commanded." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful / of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

“I put forward at once — lest I break with my style, which is affirmative and deals with contradiction and criticism only as a means, only involuntarily — the three tasks for which educators are required. One must learn to see, one must learn to think, one must learn to speak and write: the goal in all three is a noble culture. Learning to see — accustoming the eye to calmness, to patience, to letting things come up to it; postponing judgment, learning to go around and grasp each individual case from all sides. That is the first preliminary schooling for spirituality: not to react at once to a stimulus, but to gain control of all the inhibiting, excluding instincts.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

"I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

“If we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, Or, How to Philosophize With the Hammer

"In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"In true love it is the soul that envelops the body." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"I want, once and for all, not to know many things. Wisdom sets limits to knowledge, too." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"In music the passions enjoy themselves." ~Fredrich Nietzsche

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!" ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." ~Frederick Nietzsche

“Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy/The Case of Wagner

“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal." ~Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual." ~Nietzsche, Friedrich

"Much more happiness is to be found in the world than gloomy eyes discover." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"My formula for greatness in man is amor fati: the fact that a man wishes nothing to be different, either in the future or in the past or for all eternity." ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes indiscriminately: it does not like to say Yes;better to say No, but best of all to say nothing.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

"Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, only you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose.” ~F. W. Nietzsche, “Untimely Meditations”

"Notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

“One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of life cannot be estimated.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche

“Only ideas won by walking have any value.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

"Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind." ~Nietzsche

"People don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed ." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"That which does not kill me, makes me stronger." ~Fred Nietzsche

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time" ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"The bite of conscience, like a dog biting a stone, is a stupidity." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

“The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

"The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper." ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." ~Friedrich Nietzche

“The man consummating his life dies his death triumphantly, surrounded by men filled with hope and making solemn vows.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche from Life Quotes

"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” ~Friedriche Nietzsche

"The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"The thinker or artist whose better self has fled into his works feels an almost malicious joy when he sees his body and spirit slowly broken into and destroyed by time; it is as if he were in a corner, watching a thief at work on his safe, all the while knowing that it is empty and that all his treasures have been rescued." ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All-Too-Human

"There are no facts, only interpretations." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is an old illusion-it is called good and evil." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler." ~Fred Nietzsche

“To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“To live alone one must be an animal or a god – says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both – a philosopher.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche

“We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.” ~from "On the Genealogy of Morals" by Friedrich Nietzsche

“We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown beyond whatever we have words for. In all talking there lies a grain of contempt. Speech, it seems, was devised only for the average medium, communicable. The speaker has already vulgarized himself by speaking.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"What does man actually know about himself? Is he, indeed, ever able to perceive himself completely, as if laid out in a lighted display case? Does nature not conceal most things from him — even concerning his own body — in order to confine and lock him within a proud, deceptive consciousness, aloof from the coils of the bowels, the rapid flow of the blood stream, and the intricate quivering of the fibers! She threw away the key." ~Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense

"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." ~Friedrich Nietzche

"Whoever delights in solitude is either a wild beasts or God." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"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." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whoever is ringed by the flame of jealousy in the end will turn his poisonous stinger upon himself, like the scorpion.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Without music, life would be a mistake.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

"Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon the absolute truth." ~Friedrich Nietzche

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are the echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles after a carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?" ~F. Nietzsche

"You must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth." ~Friedrich Nietzsche 

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

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PHILOSOPHY

"Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

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