Friedrich Nietzsche

Quotes

• “Nietzsche's Just So Stories are terrific (old-style and new-style). They are a mixture of brilliant and crazy, sublime a...”
• “Nietzsche sought a new sort of aristocracy of super- or above-men, which would be the ultimate goal of civilized existen...”
• “Absolute nothingness is an ultimate ground of a purely apophatic mysticism, and it is even more primal in Mahayana Buddh...”
• “In the coarsest sense, to say that Nietzsche's style is important is to say that his writing is unusual and idiosyncrati...”
• “Meaning and morality of one's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self-expansion by experime...”
• “The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writ...”
• “As soon as it becomes possible, by dint of a strong will, to overthrow the entire past of the world, then, in a single m...”
• “The very reason the Greeks got so far is that they knew how to pick up the spear and throw it onward from the point wher...”
• “Sobald es aber möglich wäre, durch einen starken Willen die ganze Weltvergangenheit umzustürzen, sofort träten wir in di...”
• “The individual itself as a struggle between parts (for food, space, etc.): its evolution tied to the victory or predomin...”
• “Nietzsche was a man with a noble vision of man's future. His own delicacy, integrity, and courage shine through his writ...”
• “Attributed across social media to TSZ. Is actually quoted in TSZ, Penguin Classics, Reg Hollingdale translation, in the ...”
• “The horrible or the absurd is uplifting, because it is only seemingly horrible or absurd. The Dionysian power of enchant...”
• “The more exciting life is, the more absurd is the idea of losing it. This is perhaps the secret of that proud aridity fe...”
• “Bei diesem Zusammenhange ist die leidenschaftliche Zuneigung begreiflich, welche die Dichter der neueren Komödie zu Euri...”
• “The homogenizing of European man ... requires a justification: it lies in serving a higher sovereign species that stands...”
• “The rather more dubious side of Nietzsche's 'evolutionism' is his glorification of the warrior -- particularly when, as ...”
• “Grant me, ye gods, but one certainty," runs Parmenides' prayer, "and if it be but a log's breadth on which to lie. on wh...”
• “I think he sets a certain standard, let's say a standard of seriousness. (Q: Doesn't he seem intolerant to you, even mer...”
• “Not one of these nobly equipped young men has escaped the restless, exhausting, confusing, debilitating crisis of educat...”
• “I've come to understand that the quality of memorability and inevitability which I assumed came from intense pleasure ma...”
• “If you try to put yourself into the mood of someone who is always alone, as Nietzsche was, you realize that your own con...”
• “This context enables us to understand the passionate affection in which the poets of the New Comedy held Euripides; so t...”
• “There is only nobility of birth, only nobility of blood. When one speaks of "aristocrats of the spirit," reasons are usu...”
• “The modern scientific counterpart to belief in God is the belief in the universe as an organism: this disgusts me. This ...”
• “A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves t...”
• “Diese doppelte Selbständigkeit preist man mit Hochgefühl als ›akademische Freiheit‹: ... nur daß hinter beiden Gruppen i...”
• “In Nietzsche's view, the death of God must also spell the death of Man-that is to say, the end of a certain lordly, over...”
• “This independence is glorified as "academic freedom," ... except that in the background, a discreet distance away, stand...”
• “In Nietzsche and [Jakob] Burckhardt the German language had its last great voices of the old Goethean individualism amid...”
• “Never, however, was the struggle between truth and beauty greater than with the invasion of the Dionysian ritual; in thi...”
• “So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psycholog...”
• “The possibility has been established for the production of...a master race, the future "masters of the earth"...made to ...”
• “Probably no one as skillfully as Nietzsche has managed to appeal to the wild instincts that are dormant in man, and on t...”
• “Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all ...”
• “Diesen Ernsthaften diene zur Belehrung, dass ich von der Kunst als der höchsten Aufgabe und der eigentlich metaphysische...”
• “Only Nietzsche and Blake know a wholly fallen Godhead, a Godhead which is an absolutely alien Nihil, but the full revers...”
• “Sec. 6 (Notebook W II 2. Autumn 1887, KGW VIII, 2.237, KSA 12.571 [citations are to Nietzsche's manuscripts by archival ...”
• “Nietzsche was used to being alone. He regarded it as being part of destiny of the man of genius. His hero, Schopenhauer,...”
• “Nietzsche wanted to explode the framework of Occidental rationalism within which the competitors of Left and Right Hegel...”
• “The realization that our mental functioning is largely irrational was arrived at by several thinkers at the same time, i...”
• “The spirit of scientific investigation never ceased to impress [Nietzsche] as uniquely favorable not only for achieving ...”
• “You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your...”
• “Since Nietzsche frequently intends to shock his readers, they may be in a position to learn from him-providing they admi...”
• “Philosophy leaps ahead on tiny toeholds; hope and intuition lend wings to its feet. Calculating reason lumbers heavily b...”
• “You sacrifice yourself, your wealth torments you,You give away yourself,You don't take care of yourself, you don't love ...”
• “An art that spoke the truth [...] banished the muses of the arts of seeming; [...] the individuum - with its limits and ...”
• “Natürlicher ist unsere Stellung in politicis: wir sehen Probleme der Macht, des Quantums Macht gegen ein anderes Quantum...”
• “The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a c...”
• “In 1870 Nietzsche knew that nihilism stood at the door; now it is with us. Despair for mankind is nearly universal. What...”