Friedrich Nietzsche Would Be Quotations

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

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---

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

The universe without music would be madness.

The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal".

We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.