Friedrich Nietzsche: Trending quotes (page 16)

“Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal… an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this”

“The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.”

“And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.”

“I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”

“He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.”

“Worldly Wisdom

Do not stay in the field!
Nor climb out of sight.
The best view of the world
Is from a medium height.”

“My genius is in my nostrils.”

“How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?”

“Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.”

“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.”

“Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!
Once you were young──now you are even younger.”

“Is man one of God’s blunders, or is God one of man’s blunders?”

“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”

“The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.”

“Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.”

“Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.”

“My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.”

“Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.”

“Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.”