Friedrich Nietzsche: Trending quotes (page 13)

“Do not forget, man, consumed by lust:
you—are the stone, the desert, are death …”

“First principle: one must need to be strong — otherwise one will never become strong. — Those large hothouses [Treibhäuser] for the strong, for the strongest kind of human being that has ever been, the aristocratic commonwealths of the type of Rome or Venice, understood freedom exactly in the sense in which I understand the word freedom: as something one has and does not have, something one wants, something one conquers…”

“Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!”

“O Solitude! You are my home, Solitude!”

“What strange, perplexing, questionable questions!”

“The very word "Christianity" is a misunderstanding — in truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.”

“Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.”

“On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”

“In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments.”

“Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.”

“Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.”

“Every word is a prejudice.”

“You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.”

“And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh”

“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.”

“Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?… Third question for the conscience.”

“i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.”

“It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.”

“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”