“Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book The Antichrist
Sec. 23
The Antichrist (1888)
Recommended quotes page 73
“Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Is not life a hundred times too short for us— to bore ourselves?”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil
Ist das Leben nicht hundert Mal zu kurz, sich in ihm— zu langweilen?
Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter VII, 227
“Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
I.475
Human, All Too Human (1878)
Context: Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.
XVIII. 130–131 (tr. Robert Fagles). Cf. Iliad, XVII. 446–447.
Samuel Butler's translation:
: Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth.
Robert Fitzgerald's translation:
: Of mortal creatures, all that breathe and move,
earth bears none frailer than mankind.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Variant: Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
Source: The Iliad
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion about us.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“All idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Ecce homo
Source: Ecce Homo, chapter Why I Am So Clever
“Push your limit to the absolute extreme.”
Gordon Ramsay (1966) British chef, writer and TV presenter
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“What does not kill him, makes him stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Ecce homo
… 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)
“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil
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.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Variant: Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
I.303 http://books.google.com/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&q=&quot;we+often+contradict+an+opinion+for+no+other+reason+than+that+we+do+not+like+the+tone+in+which+it+is+expressed&quot;&pg=PA137#v=onepage <br class="br">Human, All Too Human (1878)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist