Inspiring Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche - Page 2

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"'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?"

"In music the passions enjoy themselves"

"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth"

"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"

"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species"

"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it"

"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"

"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive"

"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play"

"Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you"

"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler"

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands"

"Without music, life would be a mistake"

"There are no facts, only interpretations"

"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"

"In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame"

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how"

"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you"

"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris"

"Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind"

"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil"

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness"

"Faith: not wanting to know what is true"

"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"

"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common"

"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed"

"This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves"

"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself"

"There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings"

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

"It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters"

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages"

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

"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn"

"I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think"

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication"

"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had"

"This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver"

"We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us"

"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses"

"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love"

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy"

"The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god"

"The lie is a condition of life"

"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception"

"There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion"

"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings"

"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good"

"There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice"

"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant"

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