Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

For those who need consolation - no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.

The theoretical man finds his highest satisfaction in the process of knowing and in the uncovering of the covering; whereas the artist finds delight in what still remains veiled even after the greatest unveiling.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

State, I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!

Giving style to one's character-a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

These small things-nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness-are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

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.

There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

It is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future - and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.