Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm

“To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.”

“Our ancestors pay the price for who we are”

“One knows a little too much about everybody. And we can even see through some men, and yet we can by no means pass through them.”

“There's no defense against stupidity.”

“[...] let us go with all our "devils" to the help of our "god"!”

“The daring venture, the prolonged distrust, the cruel Nay, the tedium, the cutting-into-the-quick—how seldom do THESE come together! Out of such seed, however—is truth produced!”

“Where one can no longer love, there one should pass by.”

“Of all the evil I deem you capable. Therefore I want the good from you. Verily I have often laughed at weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”

“Creating—that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.”

“Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!”

“Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.”

“When your heart overfloweth broad and full like the river, a blessing and a danger to the lowlanders: there is the origin of your virtue.”

“Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.”

“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.”

“«El cinismo es la única fuerza bajo la cual las almas vulgares rozan lo que se llama sinceridad»”

“I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think. After a time it always seems as if they want to banish my self from myself and rob me of my soul.”

“Wir haben die Kunst, damit wir nicht an der Wahrheit zugrunde gehen.”

“everything that is deep loves the mask”

“Zarathustra, however, answered thus unto him who so spake: When one taketh his hump from the hunchback, then doth one take from him his spirit—so do the people teach. And when one giveth the blind man eyes, then doth he see too many bad things on the earth: so that he curseth him who healed him. He, however, who maketh the lame man run, inflicteth upon him the greatest in him — so do the people teach concerning cripples”

“Why?" said Zarathustra. "Thou askest why? I do not belong to those who may be asked after their Why.”

“Quiconque lutte contre des monstres devrait prendre garde, dans le combat, à ne pas devenir monstre lui-même. Et quant à celui qui scrute le fond de l'abysse, l'abysse le scrute à son tour.”

“What is love but understanding and rejoicing that another lives, works, and feels in a different and opposite way to ourselves? That love may be able to bridge over the contrasts by joys, we must not remove or deny those contrasts.”

“I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think! ”