Friedrich Nietzsche Red Quotations

There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!

In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.

The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.

Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.

Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!

With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?

I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!