“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
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@xy, member from Sept. 25, 2023“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“To find everything profound — that is an inconvenient trait.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Sec. 158
The Gay Science (1882)
Context: To find everything profound — that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
I.332 http://books.google.com/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&pg=PA139&dq=:%22Arrogance+on+the+part+of+the+meritorious+is+even+more+offensive+to+us%22&hl=en&ei=7HFTTKGJOcmhnQfSrsXJAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%3A%22Arrogance%20on%20the%20part%20of%20the%20meritorious%20is%20even%20more%20offensive%20to%20us%22&f=false <br class="br">Human, All Too Human (1878)
“Morality is herd instinct in the individual.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Sec. 116
The Gay Science (1882)
“A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil
Generally attributed to Nietzsche, this is a quotation from Curtis Cate's Friedrich Nietzsche: A Biography (2003) and is the author's interpretation of Nietzsche's Aphorism 221 (Beyond Good and Evil)
Misattributed
“He who obeys, does not listen to himself!”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche book On the Genealogy of Morality
Essay 3, Aphorism 10
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
Variant: Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell...
“I love him who seeks to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“The pure soul is a pure lie.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
Variant: He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
“Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Sec. 56
The Gay Science (1882)
“Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
I.85
Source: Human, All Too Human (1878)