Friedrich Nietzsche: Trending quotes (page 2)
Friedrich Nietzsche trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“All idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary.”
Source: Ecce Homo, chapter Why I Am So Clever
“What does not kill him, makes him stronger.”
… was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker
"Why I Am So Wise", 2
Cf. Twilight of the Idols (1888), "Maxims and Arrows", aphorism 8: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Ecce Homo (1888)
“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
Variant: One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
Variant: Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.
I.303 http://books.google.com/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&q="we+often+contradict+an+opinion+for+no+other+reason+than+that+we+do+not+like+the+tone+in+which+it+is+expressed"&pg=PA137#v=onepage
Human, All Too Human (1878)
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The Way of the Creator.
Context: But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you ambush yourself in caverns and forests. You solitary one, you go the way to yourself! And your way leads you past yourself and your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself, and a sorcerer and a soothsayer, and a fool, and a doubter, and a reprobate, and a villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes!
“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere...
Sec. 34
The Antichrist (1888)
As quoted in "Idea of Anti-Semitism Filled Nietzsche With Ire and Melancholy" in The New York Times (19 December 1987) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE0D91E3EF93AA25751C1A961948260
Variant: The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.
Source: Thus spoke Zarathustra
Source: Considérations Inactuelles III