Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Fate Quotes, Men Quotes

Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Fate Quotes , Men Quotes

I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Passion Quotes , Intellectual Quotes

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Believe Quotes , Heart Quotes

When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Change Quotes , Dream Quotes

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Meaningful Quotes , Perseverance Quotes

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Fear Quotes

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Dream Quotes , Stars Quotes

The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Men Quotes , Wisest Man Quotes

Faith is the path of least resistance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Path Quotes , Resistance Quotes

On every parable you ride to every truth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Truth Quotes

Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Respect Quotes , Speak Quotes

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Sick Quotes , Political Quotes

Only ideas won by walking have any value.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Walking Quotes

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Self Quotes , Ill Treatment Quotes

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Revenge Quotes , War Quotes

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Punishment Quotes , Support Quotes

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Men Quotes , Law Quotes