The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotations
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What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good--the atavism of a more ancient ideal.
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster.
Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
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.
Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Out of life's school of war What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.
The "highest" states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
One should never know too precisely whom one has married.
That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.
No one now dies of fatal truths; there are too many antidotes to them.
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
Plato is boring.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.
At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.
Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the best even of their blunders.
For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.
The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly.
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
For a significant man
woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.
woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.
THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do??
If the belief [in Christianity] did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Only sick music makes money today.
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from "justifying" ourselves.
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing.
When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them
It is time, it is high time... Yes, but to do what?
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
Life without music would be a mistake.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Some men are born posthumously.
We are always in our own company.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Thinking evil is making evil.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.
This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
Man is more ape than many of the apes.
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
God is dead.
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.