Friedrich Nietzsche Les Quotations

A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon fall off.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

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

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

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.

If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed .

Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

On every parable you ride to every truth.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!

A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.

In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.

It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.

On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.

Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

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

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.