3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche 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.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‘divine service.’
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche 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?
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
