Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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I regard art as the highest duty of life, as an essential metaphysical activity. Existence and the world find their eternal justification only as an aesthetic phenomenon.

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The essential in art remains the perfection of existence, which is achieved by the production of perfection and what is fulfilled. Art is essentially affirmation, blessing, deification of existence.

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Of all the works I like only those written in blood: Write with your blood and you will know that blood means spirit.

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Culture is above all the unity of the artistic style in all life manifestations of a people.

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The seductive hope of dream worlds, in the creation of which every man is a sovereign artist, is the premise of all visual arts, even of an important part of poetry.

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Every art, every philosophy may be regarded as a remedy and as a means of stimulating the growth or degeneration of life: they always presuppose the existence of sufferings and sufferers. But there are two kinds of sufferers: first, those who suffer from the fullness of life, who want a Dionysian art and at the same time a tragic look and perspective on life, and then those who suffer from an impoverishment of life and ask art and philosophy to rest, Quiet.

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It is an intoxicating joy for the sufferer to turn his eyes away from his suffering and forget.

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There is an innocence in admiration; that of the man who hasn't thought, yet, that he might be admired one day...

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There is more inappropriateness in praise than in reproach.

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The taller you get, the smaller you look in the eyes of the scumbags.

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The inability to lie is still quite far from the love of truth.

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If you want rest - believe. If you want the truth - seek and suffer.

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The disappointed one says: "I have looked for remarkable people, but I have always found only copies of their ideals."

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A clear thing ceases to interest us. What did that God mean who advised us: "Know thyself." Perhaps it meant: "Stop being self-interested, be objective." But Socrates? What about the "scientist"?

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Chained heart - free mind. If you handcuff your heart tightly and hold it captive, then you can give your mind a lot of freedom - I've said this before. But they don't believe me, they seem to know this themselves.

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The consequences of our actions hound us, regardless of the fact that we have, in the meantime, "corrected ourselves."

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A perfect woman deals with literature as if she were committing a small sin: for experience, among other things, looking around to see if anyone noticed this and to be noticed by someone and to be noticed what she is doing. .

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Advice in the form of a riddle: "If the bonds do not break themselves, try to break them with your teeth."

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In the case of the man who has realized what reality is, pity is almost as ridiculous as tender hands in the case of a cyclops.

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Comparing man and woman in general, the following can be said: woman would not be so skilled in the art of cooking if she did not instinctively feel that her destiny is second-rate.

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Becoming a real husband means regaining that seriousness you had as a child while playing.

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To be ashamed of your immorality is a step on that ladder at the top of which others are also ashamed of their morality.

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It's so cold, so icy, you burn your fingers when you touch it! Every hand trembles at his touch! That is precisely why he is considered incandescent.

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Once you have made a decision, to cover your ears even in the face of the most serious and unpleasant argument - here is the sign of a strong character. So a random will leads to stupidity.

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The charm of knowledge would have been insignificant if you did not have to endure so much shame on the way to it.

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He who despises himself, values ​​himself as a contemptible person.

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Both men and women have the same emotions, but they differ in their rhythm, and therefore man and woman will never come to understand each other.

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The danger of happiness: “Everything is for my good; now all fate is dear to me,—who wishes to be my fate?”

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Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves.

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The discovery of reciprocity should fundamentally awaken the lover in relation to the loved one. "How? Is loving yourself simple enough? Or rather mundane? Either - sometimes".

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You stop trusting smart people if you catch them being confused.

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When you seek the beginning, you become cancer. A specialist in history looks back; in the end, his faith is also restored.

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With respect to any party. The shepherd always needs a leading ram so that he does not become a ram when needed.

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Help yourself: then everyone will help you. The principle of neighborly love.

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The understanding of the tragic diminishes or increases depending on the sensitivity.

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Poets are disrespectful to their own turmoil: they exploit it.

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Trândăvia is the mother of all psychology. How? Is psychology a vice?

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Where love or hate is not present the woman plays mediocre.

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What is now thought to be a bad deed is usually a delayed echo of that deed which was once thought to be a good one—the atavism of the past ideal.

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The disappointed one says, "I listened to the echo and heard nothing but praise."

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The more abstract the truth you want to say, the more you have to entice feelings with it.

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The trodden worm begins to squirm. This is something rational. Thus, he decreases the probability of being stepped on again. In the language of morality: humility.

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What are you looking for? Would you like to marry or marry? Looking for followers? Look for voids!

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The fact that God learned Greek when he wanted to become a writer hides a great subtlety - as well as the fact that he did not learn it better.

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We begin to learn what a man is when his talent declines—when he no longer shows what he can do. Talent is like a garment, and a garment is a way to hide yourself.

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To live in solitude you must be an animal or a God, says Aristotle. There is a third situation: to be both, that is, a philosopher.

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We do not like a foreign vanity when it touches our own vanity.

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These were steps for me, I rose above them - for that I had to climb them. But they thought I wanted to sit on them to rest...

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"I do not like this." - Why? "He's not ready for this." - Did any man answer like that?

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I do not trust any systematic man, and therefore I avoid them. The desire for system is a shortcoming of honesty.

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I wish, once and for all, that I don't know much anymore. Wisdom presupposes some limits in the field of knowledge as well.

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"I did that," my memory tells me. "I couldn't do that," my pride tells me firmly. Eventually, memory fails.

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Often, sensitivity defeats the bud of love, so that the root remains weak and breaks easily.

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Do you want to be a companion? Or move forward? Or do you want to go alone? You have to know what you want and if you want it. The fourth problem of consciousness.

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Authenticity, clear conscience, the obviousness of truth come only from the realm of feelings.

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The hardest thing to bear is to have our vanity offended precisely when our pride is offended.

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Are you running ahead? - Are you doing this like a shepherd? Or is it something exceptional? Every third is just a fugitive... the first question of conscience.

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Difficult, conceited people become more loyal precisely because they distract others from love and hate, and for a time rise to their own surface.

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Do you want to instill sympathy in him? Then pretend to lose yourself in front of him.

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"Bad people have no songs." - So how come Russians have songs?

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In women, in the depths of their vanity, is found an impersonal contempt - the contempt "of woman."

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For severe people, honesty is a subject of shame, but also something precious.

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The devil has the broadest views of God; therefore he and keep away from it - the devil is the intimate friend of knowledge.

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It is terrible to die of thirst at sea. Don't you want to be so salted in the truth that you can never quench your thirst?

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Familiarity bothers the strong man because he cannot pay with the same coin.

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The formula of my happiness is: Yes, No, a straight line, a goal...

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A pedagogue to the core, he takes all things seriously, turning his attention to his students.

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Self-love is barbarism; because it is done to the detriment of other people. So is the love of God.

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Love discovers the great and hidden qualities of the lover, all that is rare and exceptional in him: and this misleads him, because it is taken as a rule.

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People are most severely punished for their virtues.

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People rarely commit a single imprudence. In the case of the first imprudence, I do too much, and for this reason I also commit the second imprudence: I already do more - but this time, I do too little.

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It is easy for people to lie in their words, but the grimace on their face during this time tells us the truth.

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Talking a lot about yourself can be a way of hiding yourself.

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Can the donkey be tragic? - to die under the weight that you can neither carry nor throw to the ground?... The situation of the philosopher.

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The sage as the astronomer: - Until you feel the stars as something "above you", you do not yet have the eye of a knower.

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Man created woman, but from what? From the side of her god - her "ideal"...

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He who fights a monster must beware of becoming a monster himself. And if, you look into the darkness for a while, and the darkness looks at you.

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He who cannot find the way to the ideal is more reckless and shameless than the man without an ideal.

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The peacock hides its tail - and calls it pride.

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Another, enjoying a praise, discovers only politeness of heart - the very opposite of spiritual vanity.

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How little you need to be happy! The sound of bagpipes. - Without music, life would have been an error. The Germans even imagine God singing.

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"How much your conscience used to have to gnaw at you. What good teeth she had! - But today? What is not enough?" asks the dentist.

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How? A great man? I see only an actor of his own ideal.

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How? Have you chosen virtue and great senses, but at the same time you look askance at the gains of unrighteous men? But those who choose virtue thereby refuse gains (at the front door of an antisemite).

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How? Is man just a mistake of God? Or is God a human error?

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Who has not at least ever had to sacrifice himself for his good reputation?

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He who attains his ideal thereby surpasses it.

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He who rejoices even at the stake, triumphs not in the face of pain, but in the fact that he does not feel pain where he expected it.

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He who cannot impose his will on things, at least imposes their meaning; that is, he believes in the fact that there is already a will.

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Music is a means of sweetening passions.

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To him who feels predestined for meditation but not for faith, all believers are very noisy and boring - he defends himself from them.

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Our vanity wants to believe that what we do best is also our hardest.

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You don't have to be afraid of your deeds! You don't have to run away from them! - Reprimands of conscience are improper.

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It is not the intensity, but the duration of the strongest sensations that makes great men.

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It is not humanity, but the inability to be humane that prevents Christians today from burning us at the stake.

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It wasn't the fact that you lied to me that shook me, but the fact that I already don't believe you anymore.

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In general, there are no moral phenomena, there is only a moral interpretation of phenomena...

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We must bid farewell to life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa, — more blessed than lovers.

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Both sexes lie to each other - from this it follows that they, in essence, respect and love only themselves (or, if you prefer, only their own ideal). Thus, man wants a peaceful spirit from woman - but, nevertheless, woman, according to her nature, is a warrior like a cat, which, however much it learns to be peaceful, will never be so.

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High expectations of sexual love and the shame caused by these expectations spoil all prospects for women.

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One is looking for a midwife for his own thoughts, another, a man who can help him solve the problems generated by his thoughts: this is how a quality conversation is born.

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To the strongest instinct, the tyrant in us, not only reason but also conscience is submitted.

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Our neighbor is not our neighbor, but our neighbor's neighbor, - this is what every people thinks.

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Science puts all real women to shame. However, they feel as if they have gotten under their skin, or worse, under their dress and jewelry.

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We don't believe in the stupidity of smart people. What a violation of human rights!

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We do not hate man if we consider him inferior; but we hate it when we consider it equal or superior.

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We become indifferent to something we have known as soon as we share it with others.

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We adapt badly to life if we don't notice the hand that spares us and kills us.

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Sometimes we proceed as in a dream: first we invent and imagine the person with whom we begin to communicate - and on the spot we forget everything.

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The idea of ​​suicide is a powerful means of consolation: with it, we bear the dark nights better.

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Being alone with ourselves, we imagine everyone else to be simpler than us: thus, we take a break from those close to us.

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Do we, the immoralists, cause damage to the virtues? As little as anarchists do to kings. But since they started shooting them, they sit even more firmly on their thrones. Morale: We must shoot morale.

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The people is nature's detour to reach six, seven famous people. And to avoid them later.

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As to what "authenticity" means, probably no one has yet clarified to a sufficient extent.

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Are you a real person or just an actor? Substitute or replaced? - Finally, you could also be a fake actor... The second question of conscience.

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In revenge and love, woman is fiercer than man.

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Nowadays, the knower easily feels like an animal transformed into a divinity.

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In your own wild essence you rest best from your artificiality, from your spirituality...

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In indulgence there is no trace of misanthropy, precisely because there is too much contempt for people.

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There is more nagging in a praise than in a rebuke.

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The great epochs of our lives begin when we have the courage to rename our evil into something better.

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Objection, doubt, irony are the essence of health: everything that is indisputable belongs to pathology.

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Around a hero, everything becomes tragedy, around a demigod, everything becomes satirical drama, and around God everything becomes - how? Maybe "world"?

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In peacetime, the warrior man rushes upon himself.

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After all, we love our own lust, and not the object of it.

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There are cases when we, psychologists, resemble horses and are overcome by anxiety: we see our own shadow swaying. The psychologist does not have to look at himself in order to be able to see in general.

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Lawyers for delinquents are rarely so illustrious as to be able to turn to the guilty party all the glamor of a horrible deed.

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Madness is rare among individuals, but within groups, parties of peoples, ages - it is like a rule.

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It is not in man's nature to bless when he is cursed.

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Men deal most unfairly with their God: they do not allow him to err.

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The belly appears because it is not so easy for man to imagine that he is God.

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Often the offender does not live up to his deed - then he diminishes its importance and slanders it.

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Sometimes kindness stings and looks mean.

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Strong belief in some object can give birth to an innocent lie.

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Willingness and overcoming one emotion is just the will to fight another emotion or even more.

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An artist's needs are modest: he wants only two things, bread and art.

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When choosing between scientists and painters you can easily go wrong, orienting yourself in the opposite direction: often in a remarkable scientist we find a mediocre man, but in a mediocre painter we often find a remarkable man.

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There is an innocent admiration; it is possessed by the one who has not yet thought that he too may someday be admired.

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There is a hatred of falsehood and hypocrisy, which springs from the sensibility of honor; there is such hatred, which springs from cowardice, since lying is forbidden by the commandment of God. He's too much of a coward to lie...

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A woman learns to hate to the extent that she is unaccustomed to charm.

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Why is the woman considered profound? because you never end it.

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And the bravest among us rarely has courage in the face of things he does not know...

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From the military school of life: what doesn't kill me makes me stronger.

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Are you one of those who look like a spectator? Or of those who participate? Who does not attract attention, goes in another direction? The third problem of consciousness.

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Out of humanity, we sometimes embrace the first comer (because you don't have to embrace everyone): but that's exactly what you shouldn't divulge to the first comer…

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If we have to re-educate a certain person, we take harsh revenge for the inconvenience he has caused us.

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If you have character, it means that you also have typical habits, which are always repeated.

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If the woman shows scientific aptitude, then there is something wrong with her genital apparatus. Sterility predisposes to the famous sense of courage; the man, may I be forgiven, is "a barren animal."

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Everything done out of love always happens beyond good and evil.

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"Where there is a tree of knowledge, there is always heaven" - so old and new snakes tell us.

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The brilliant man is unbearable if he does not already possess at least two qualities: the sense of gratitude and that of honesty.

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Even cohabitation degrades: when it turns into marriage.

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Getting enough even protects you from colds. Has a woman who can dress well ever caught a cold? I suppose only if she was thinly clad.

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The man who feels that he is loved, but loves no one, shows his shortcomings: the vilest things come out.

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If we train our conscience, then it will kiss us even when it bites us.

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If the woman has manly virtues, run away from her; and if she has no manly virtues, she will run away alone.

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Wanting to love: this means being ready to die.

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Some people cannot shake off their own shackles and yet become the savior of their friend.

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Taken in itself, the sexual feeling, the feeling of sympathy and adoration have in common that a person does good to another person with his pleasure.

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I never took anyone as an example, I was lonely in my own house and I laughed at every master, who didn't laugh at himself.

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The stimulus of stimuli, this disturbing, varied, dangerous, gloomy and often glowing existence! Living is an adventure, and no matter which party you are on, this aspect of life will always remain!

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We admire everything that is finished, we despise everything that is to come.

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Madness is the exception in the individual, but the rule in groups.

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But let it be your honor to always love more than to be loved and never be second.

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Lack of friends indicates envy or arrogance. Some people have no reason to envy their friends thanks to lucky circumstances.

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Love is blind and friendship closes its eyes.

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The biggest events are not the loudest hours of our lives, but their quietest hours.

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Let your virtue stand higher, so that names cannot confide in you: and if you have to talk about it, don't be ashamed if you do it with a stutter. So say and stutter: "This is my 'good', this is what I like, this is how I really like it, that's the only way I want good."

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The slave and the tyrant hid in the woman for a very long time. Therefore, the woman is not yet capable of friendship: she only knows love.

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While you are being praised, always remember that you are not yet on your own path, but on someone else's.

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In the end, we don't love what we desire, but the desire itself.

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We must learn to get out of unclean conditions cleanly, and if the need so requires, we must be able to wash clean even in dirty water.

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A nation is the walling of nature in order to reach six or seven great people. - Yes: and to bypass them.

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The higher we fly, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

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Just such lonely people need love, companions with whom they can be as simple and open as they are with themselves, in whose presence the convulsive silence dissolves and the compulsion to pretend ceases.

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However, when Zarathustra was left alone, he said to his heart: "Would it be possible? Would this old saint in his forest have heard anything about the death of a god?!"

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Life is a hundred times too short to be bored.

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I have not sought happiness for a long time; I strive to do my best.

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Anyone who is unable to forget all the past and settle on the threshold of the moment, who cannot stop at one point - like the goddess of victory - without dizziness and fear, will never know what happiness is.

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A man's happiness: "I want!", a woman's happiness: "She wants."

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Not misery, not greed, but the love of power is the demon of men.

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Innumerable beings were destroyed who thought and made decisions differently than we do now.

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If we have the "why" of our life, we can tolerate almost any "how".

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It is still the privilege of the most educated to know, for example, that man has a nervous system (rather than a "soul").

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Christianity did its best to close the circle and even declared doubt a sin. Without reason, as if by the power of a miracle, we have to be led to believe and swim in it as if we were swimming in the purest, clearest, clearest element: if we were to search the land with our eyes, even the thought that maybe we should not only swim is the most subtle manifestation of our amphibious nature - already it would be a crime in itself! Let us note that in this way the justification of faith and all thinking about its origin are excluded, because this is a sinful thing. They want blindness, intoxication and eternal singing over the foams in which reason has drowned!

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"Faith" means not wanting to know what is true.

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There is always some madness in love. But even in madness there is always some sense.

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In Christianity, there is a hunting instinct towards all those who can be doubted by anything - only a part of humanity is prone to this. Christianity is on their trail, constantly stalking them.

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For the "truth"! - "The virtuous way of life of Christians, their steadfastness in suffering, their firm faith and, above all, the multiplication and development despite all the troubles, speak for the truth of Christianity" - that's how you spoke even today! This is pathetic! So learn that all this does not speak in favor of the truth, nor against the truth, that the truth is proved differently than the credibility of words, and the latter is no argument in favor of the former at all!

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Christian interpreters of the body. - Whatever comes from the stomach, the intestines, the heartbeat, the nerves, the bile or the sperm - all the disorders, weakness, excessive excitability, randomness of the machine that is completely unknown to us - a Christian like Pascal must absolutely recognize it as a moral and religious phenomenon to understand, with the question whether they contain God or the devil, good or evil, salvation or damnation! Oh, unfortunate interpreter! How much you have to twist and turn your system! How much you have to twist yourself to be right!

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Those who fight monsters should be careful not to become monsters in the process.

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Women can very well make friends with men; but a little physical dislike is okay if they honestly want to stick with friendship.

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Are you a slave? You can't be friends like that. Are you a tyrant? You can't have friends like that.

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It is part of the master's humanism to protect his students from himself.

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What is tradition? It is a superior authority to which we obey not because it commands us to do what is useful for us, but because it commands.

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One person is looking for a midwife for their thoughts, the other is looking for someone to help - this is how a good conversation arises.

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Man is the cruelest animal.

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Art is not whether we can organize a celebration, but whether we can find people who are happy about it.

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Never hold back, don't keep anything from yourself that can be thought against your own thoughts!

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Sensuality often hastens the growth of love, so that the root remains weak and can be easily uprooted.

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Beliefs are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

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It wasn't that you lied to me that shook me, but that I no longer believed you.

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Medicine for the depressed. - Even Paul believed that a sacrifice was necessary in order for God's profound depression due to sin to end: and since then Christians have not stopped filling their self-loathing with a sacrifice - be it the "world", "history", the emotion, the joy or peaceful tranquility of others, something good must definitely die for their sins (if only in effigy)!

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And in front of us is the man who has lost his myth, who in the midst of all pasts, without a past and hungry for the past, forever unsatisfied, is scratching to find some roots.

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- Which is the strongest medicine? - The victory.

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The higher the tree grows into the sky, the deeper its roots reach into the mud.

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We are like two ships going their own way, following their own goal: our paths may cross and we celebrate this meeting as we once did - and then the tall ships rested peacefully side by side in the same harbor, in the same sunlight , as calmly as if they were already at the goal, as if they had one goal. But the irresistible force of our mission drove us to separate paths again, to different seas, to different sunlight, and maybe we will never see each other again - or maybe we will still see each other, but we just don't know each other: because different seas and different sunshine have changed us!

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The institution of marriage stubbornly maintains the belief that love, even though it is a passion, can still last, and that lifelong love can even be established as a rule. This noble belief (...) is quite often and almost regularly refuted.

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Trusting our feelings means that we listen to our grandfather and grandmother and their grandparents more than to the gods who live inside us: our reason and our experience.

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No one should be allowed to make a lifelong decision in the state of love.

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This woman is beautiful and smart: but how much smarter she would have become if she were not beautiful!

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Our usual mood depends on the mood we can create in our environment.

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To give up something that we own, to give up the right to own it - gives us pleasure if it indicates great wealth. That's what generosity is.

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Of all the comforts to the needy, none does so much good as the finding that there is no comfort for him.

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Anyone who is not a bird should not want to build a nest on top of the precipice.

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Half-knowledge is more victorious than full knowledge: it knows things as simpler than they are, and therefore forms its opinion about them more perceptibly and convincingly.

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We often disagree with an opinion, when actually it is only the voice in which it is said that is repugnant to us.

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No matter how far a person gets with his knowledge, no matter how objectively he judges himself, in the end he gains nothing from it all, only his own biography.

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Happy are the forgetful, for they make virtue out of failure.

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I like the brave: but swinging swords is not enough - you also have to know who to draw your sword on! And more than once, there is more courage in the one who stands aside and keeps his temper in check: to consider himself a more worthy enemy! Let your enemies be hateful, not contemptible: be proud of your enemies: thus I once taught you.

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Oh, happy old days, when peoples still spoke like this: "I want to rule - over other peoples!" Because, my friends: the order of things is for the best to rule, and the best wants to rule! And where there is a different teaching, there - the best is missing.

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If we are silent for a year, we forget to chatter and learn to speak.

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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

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Someone else will command the one who is unable to obey himself.

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We are welcome in the free nature because he has no opinion about us.

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The first opinion that comes to mind when suddenly asked about something is usually not our own opinion, but the usual opinion, belonging to our caste, position, origin; independent opinions rarely float on the surface.

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One insists on an opinion because he is proud that he came to it on his own, the other because he learned it with difficulty and is proud that he was able to understand it. So both out of vanity.

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Man has to put himself to the test, to find out if he is made for independence and command; in time too. Not to shy away from our own trials, even though this is perhaps the most dangerous game that can be played, and in the end, they are only trials, of which we ourselves are the witnesses, and there is no judge outside of us.

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Being independent is the business of less than the few: - this is the prerogative of the strong.

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Anyone who has seen the world deeply can guess how much wisdom lies in the fact that people are superficial. Their instinct for self-preservation teaches them to be volatile, light and false.

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Love of One is barbarous: for it is practiced at the expense of all others. Also love for God.

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The man's maturity: rediscovering the seriousness he still had as a child - while playing.

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Where love or hate does not play a role, the woman plays a mediocre role.

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In revenge and love, women are more barbaric than men.

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He who does not want to see the height in a person, scrutinizes all that is low and superficial in him all the more keenly - and betrays himself with it.

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How few pleasures are enough for most people to find life good - how modest a person is!

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In the gilded case of sympathy sometimes hides the dagger of envy.

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Belief in the truth begins with doubting all the truths previously believed.

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The advantage of a bad memory is that you enjoy the same good things more than once.

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Love and hate are not blind, they are just dazzled by the fire they carry within themselves.

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Those who have given us their full trust believe that they have earned the right to ours as well. This is a mistake: one does not acquire rights with a gift.

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We begin to value one of our virtues only when we notice that our opponent lacks it.

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We often come across copies of important people, and most people like the copies better than the originals, as with paintings.

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Woe to everyone, once the "eternal-boring" residing in a woman is so rich in it! - you can dare! once he begins to forget his cleverness and art, his charm, his play, his brooding, his ease and ease, his aptitude for pleasurable desires!

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If we have to change our opinion about someone, we harshly write off the discomfort it causes us.

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What is done out of love always happens beyond good and bad.

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Remorse is a sign that the character has not grown up to the action. Even after good deeds there is remorse; it is the unusualness that makes them stand out from their old environment.

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The main reason for nihilism: the lack of a more elevated race, that is, those whose inexhaustible fruitfulness and power preserve faith in people. Just think of what we owe to Napoleon: almost all the lofty hopes of this century.

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Nihilism is a normal state. It can be a sign of strength: the strength of the spirit, it can increase so much that the previous goals are disproportionately small for him. On the other hand, it can also be a sign of insufficient strength, which strength is insufficient to productively set a goal, cause, or belief before oneself again.

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The secret, through which one can reap the greatest abundance, the greatest joy of existence, is none other than the dangerous life! Build your cities on Vesuvius!

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My brother, the lucky person has only one virtue and no more: it will make it easier to cross the bridge. To possess many virtues is an honor, but it is also a difficult fate, and how many virtuous people have hid in the wilderness and ended their lives because they were tired of being a battlefield for the ceaseless battles of their virtues.

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The great periods of our lives are the occasions when we become brave enough to rechristen our evil qualities as our best qualities.

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You who are lonely today, you who are isolated, one day you will become a people.

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I would know you as Unknown! You, reaching deep into my soul, my life, like a storm, torn apart, Intangible, My relative inside! I would know you as your servant.

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Truth is just a useless fiction.

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Where does a man's sudden passions for a woman come from, the deep, inner ones? Least of sensuality; but if a man sees tenderness, need for support, and arrogance at the same time in the same being - then something happens in him, as if his soul wants to overflow: he is affected and offended at the same moment. This is the source of great love.

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All deep thinkers fear being understood more than being misunderstood. Perhaps his vanity suffers from the latter; from the former, however, his heart, his compassion, which always says: "Oh, why do you wish for yourselves such a grave fate as mine?"

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A person who strives for something big sees everyone he meets on his path either as a tool, or as a delay or a barrier - sometimes a temporary resting place. The high-quality kindness towards his fellow humans that is characteristic of him is only possible when he has already reached the top and rules.

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The more similar, the more ordinary people have always been and are at an advantage, the more selected, more refined, rarer, more difficult to understand are easily left alone, are more vulnerable to accidents in their solitude, and rarely reproduce in offspring.

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For someone who was ordered and created to command, self-denial and modest withdrawal into the background would not be a virtue, but a waste of a virtue.

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Man lies with his mouth; but with the expression on his face he still tells the truth.

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Once the decision has been made, the ear must be closed even to the best counterargument: this is a sign of strong character. So the casual will of stupidity.

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Religion is the product of doubt concerning the unity of the personality, the change of the personality - at the same time, man perceived all his greatness and strength as superhuman and alien, so he reduced himself, separated his two sides, the very pathetic and weak and the very strong and wonderful, into two spheres. - he named the former man, the latter God.

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One should not be too right if one wishes to have the laughers on one's side; don't be somewhat wrong, it's part of good taste.

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Lack of trust between friends is a mistake that will be irreparable if spoken.

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All fateful things are created from the "common sense".

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People reach for the light, but not to see better, but to shine more effectively.

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Hope is the worst evil because it prolongs human suffering.

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God has only one excuse for the evil of the world - that he does not exist.

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What the father is silent about, the son speaks, and I often find that the son himself is the father's revealed secret.

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The passion of the greatest is to seek risk and danger, and to risk death itself.

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Everything passes, everything comes back; this is how the wheel of existence turns forever.

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He who spares himself too much will eventually be made ill by the spareness.

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I'd rather be cheated than have to be on the lookout for cheaters all the time.

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It is worse to be silent; every unspoken truth is filled with poison.

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A real man wants two things: play and danger. That's why he wants the woman, as the most dangerous toy.

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We only hear questions to which we are able to find answers.

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A real fox calls not only the grapes he can reach sour, but also the grapes picked from others.

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We criticize a thinker more sharply if he posits a proposition that is unpleasant to us; and it is more reasonable to do this if your offer is favorable for us.

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If spouses did not live together, good marriages would be more common.

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We do not attach any particular value to the possession of a certain virtue until we observe the complete absence of this virtue in our opponent.

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Fate honors us best by allowing us to fight for a time on the side of our enemies.

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Few believe in themselves completely; - and some of these few receive this faith from within, as a kind of necessary blindness or a partial darkening of their spirit - (what would they see if they could look into the depths of themselves!), while others must acquire this faith: everything they do is good, brave, virtuous , first serves as an argument against the skeptic residing in them: he must be defeated and convinced, and this requires almost a genius. They are big people who are dissatisfied with themselves.

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Moral judgment and condemnation are the revenge favorite of the spiritually limited on those who are less so, in addition, it is also a kind of compensation for the way nature treated them, and finally an opportunity for them to acquire a spirit and become refined: - evil makes you spiritual.

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If you look into an abyss, the abyss looks back at you.

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Until now, men have treated women as if they were birds that had flown into them from somewhere: they saw something delicate, fragile, and wild in her, something wonderful and sweet-hearted, but also something that needs to be caged so that it doesn't fly away.

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The physiological condition of art is intoxication, and rhythm is the best tool to induce it.

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Anyone who has something to live for can endure almost anything.

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Being around people spoils my character, especially if someone doesn't have one.

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I hate you the most because you're attracted to me, but you're not strong enough to be completely attached to me.

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If I'm high, walk on your own feet! Don't push yourselves, don't sit on other people's shoulders and heads!

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In every adult there is a child who wants to play.

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He also dreams about himself (man), that he cannot learn to forget, and he hangs on to the past anyway: no matter how far, no matter how fast he runs, the chain runs with him.

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A solid reputation was once extremely useful: and wherever the herd instinct rules society today, it is still useful, indeed most expedient, for everyone to show their character and occupation unchanged - even if this is far from the truth.

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The desire for possession (...) is most evident in love: the person in love strives for exclusive possession of the object of his love, he desires the same unconditional power over his soul as he does over his body, he wishes that the object of his love loves only him, as the most powerful and the most desirable he wants to live and rule in the other's soul.

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Men and women both have different understandings of the concept of love - and for both genders, one of the prerequisites for love is that one does not expect the same feeling from the other, or the same "concept" of love.

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Life would be a mistake without music.

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The idealist is incorrigible. If you cast him out of heaven, he forges an ideal out of hell.

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Art is there so that we do not perish in the truth.

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The truth rarely finds representatives not when it is dangerous, but when it is boring to say it.

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We gladly consider the person who shines in front of us as the sun.

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Some people are born only after their own death.

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A person needs chaos inside to give birth to a dancing star.

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A rope between man, a rope between an animal and the superhuman - a rope stretching over a chasm. Man is a dangerous crossing, a dangerous path-taking, a dangerous looking back, a dangerous shudder and a halt.

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The doctrine of equality! There is no poison more poisonous than this: for it apparently preaches justice, while it is nothing but the end of justice... "Equal to equal, different according to the measure of the difference" - this would be the true speech of justice: and, what follows from this, "the different never make it equal".

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Great men, like great eras, are explosive materials in which enormous power has accumulated; the historical and physiological prerequisite for this is that for a long time the strength was collected, accumulated, conserved and preserved for them - and did not explode. The tension in the crowd became enormous, so a random stimulus is enough to call forth the "genius", the "deed", the great destiny.

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It is fatal to be left to one's instincts in an age like today. These instincts contradict, disturb and destroy each other.

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A free man is a warrior. - How do you measure the freedom of individuals and peoples? According to the resistance to be overcome and the effort that comes at the cost of staying on top.

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The existence of forgetting has never been proven: we only know that there are things that do not come to mind when we want to recall them.

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He who seeks beginnings becomes cancer. The historian looks backwards; finally he believes backwards.

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Only the most power-hungry people can feel pleasure in sealing those who oppose their power: only those for whom even the sight of those already in their power is pregnant and annoying.

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Good people in all times are those who cultivate and bring to fruition the old thinking, like sowers of the spirit.

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If (...) you want to reduce or suppress people's sensitivity to pain, then you must also reduce people's ability to enjoy.

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Perhaps nothing distinguishes men and ages from each other more than the different degrees of knowledge of their misery: that of both soul and body.

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Insanity is rare in individuals; but in groups, parties, nations and eras: rule.

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Unhappy marriages lack love, not friendship.

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Truths are illusions that we have forgotten are illusions.

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The fight against the expediency of art is always a fight against the moralizing tendency of art.

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The value of a thing is sometimes determined not by what we achieve with it, but by what we pay for it - how much it costs.

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No matter how contagious pessimism is, to say the least, it does not aggravate the disease of an age or a generation as a whole: it merely expresses it. You catch it like cholera: you have to be sick to get it.

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To die proudly when we can no longer live proudly. To choose death freely, at the right time, cheerfully, with joy, among children and witnesses: when a real farewell is still possible, when the person saying goodbye is still present.

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If a man loves like a woman, he becomes a slave, but if a woman loves like a woman, he becomes a perfect woman.

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All artists and "artists", mother types feel this way: in each stage of life, which is closed by a work, they believe that they are already at the goal itself, ready to face death patiently, feeling that: " we deserve it". All this is not a sign of fatigue, but rather the effect of a certain lukewarm autumn sunshine, which is always left behind in the creator by the work itself and the ripening of the work.

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Subtle disdain honors our taste, it is our prerogative, our art, and perhaps even our virtue, the virtue of the most modern among the modern. Hate, on the other hand, equalizes, sets people against each other on the same level, there is respect in hate, and finally, there is a lot of fear in hate, most of it consists of fear.

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All truth is simple. - Isn't that a double lie?

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There are many things I don't want to know. - Wisdom also sets a limit to knowledge.

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Would man be merely an accessory to God? Or is God merely a sidekick to man?

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The law of all finer styles is rooted in this: it keeps a distance, creates distance, forbids "entry", understanding (...), while it does open the ears of those whose ears are related to ours.

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There is no formula for how much food a spirit needs to grow; but if his taste leads him to independence, prompting him to come and go quickly, to wander, perhaps even to adventure, for which only the most alert spirits are fit, then he would rather live free and on a lean diet than in dependence and with a full stomach. A good dancer doesn't want to get bloated, so he expects vitality and a high degree of flexibility from nutrition, and I don't know if a philosopher could wish for anything more than to be a good dancer. Dance is his ideal, his art, his devotion and ultimately his only "worship".

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I don't trust any system creator, I avoid them. Sticking to the system indicates a lack of honesty.

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Are you original? or just an actor? Do you represent something? or are you yourself what you represent?

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It is naïve to say that "man should be like this and like that!". Reality presents us with a delightful variety of types, the prodigal richness of the play and changeability of forms: and to this a miserable, indulgent moralist says: "no! let man be different"? ... Moreover, this starving swindler even knows how to be; he paints himself on the wall and says: "ecce homo!".

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From head to toe, the individual is a piece of fate, a law, even more a necessity for all the future and those to come. Telling him "change" means demanding that everything change, and backwards...

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All religions and morals are based on this general formula: "Do this and that, leave this and that - and you will be happy! Otherwise..." All morals, all religions are this imperative - I call this the great, original sin of reason, I call it immortal insanity. In my opinion, this wording turns into the opposite (...): a successful, "happy" person must do certain actions and instinctively refrain from other actions.

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Bringing an unknown thing back to the known makes it easier, calms, satisfies, and also creates a feeling of power. The unknown causes danger, restlessness, trouble, - the (...) instinct strives to eliminate these embarrassing conditions. First principle: any explanation is better than none.

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Wherever responsibility is sought, the will to punish and judge is what is sought.

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Experiencing it just because we want to experience it is not advisable. In the experience, you must not look at yourself, because every look becomes an "evil look".

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The patient is a parasite of society. In a certain state, it is unfair to continue living.

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The flame is not as bright for itself as for whom it lights: so is the wise man.

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Freedom is the willingness to take responsibility for others.

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A virtuous person is a lowly type if only because he is not a personality, but acquires his value by resembling a certain type of person that will never change. It can be compared, there are others like it, but it cannot be unique.

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The priest knows only one great danger: and that is science - the healthy concept of cause and effect. However, science as a whole develops only in the midst of favorable conditions - one needs plenty of time and spirit to "get to know". (...) "Consequently, man must be made unhappy" - this was the priest's logic in all ages.

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Man must be superior to mankind, namely, through strength, majesty of the soul - through contempt.

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There is no artist who can bear reality.

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It is easy to talk about all kinds of immoral acts, but do we have the strength to endure them?

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For me, atheism is not a result, much less an event: I instinctively consider it natural. I'm too curious, suspicious and arrogant to settle for clumsy explanations.

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Prejudices of Good and Bad God.

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If God wanted to be the object of love, then he should have renounced the role of judge and judge: a judge cannot be an object of love, even if he is merciful.

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In the course of recent centuries, science was developed partly because they hoped to understand the goodness and wisdom of God with and through it - this was the main spiritual motive of the great Englishmen (such as Newton) - partly because they believed in the absolute necessity of knowledge, which is the strongest link in the morality, between science and happiness - this is the main motive of the soul of the great French (such as Voltaire) - and partly because they always wanted to see in science something selfless and harmless, something standing in itself, something innocent, to which man is evil his instincts have nothing to do with the heavenly world - this is the main spiritual motive of Spinoza, who felt divine as a knower: - therefore, due to three errors!

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God is dead: but man's nature is such that perhaps for thousands of years there will be caves in which the shadow of God is shown. - And we - we even have to defeat his shadow!

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However, his silence weighed on me, and someone who is like that with others is certainly lonelier than if he were alone.

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Every thought is eventually crushed by its "laws".

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Profession is the backbone of life.

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He who has trained his imagination to drive away the mullet suffers little because of his dashed hopes.

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The malicious talk of others about us is often not actually addressed to us, but rather an expression of annoyance that has completely different causes.

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Many people wait until the end of their lives for the opportunity to be good in their own way.

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There are those who want to make people's lives difficult, only to be able to offer them their recipes to make life easier afterwards, such as their Christian faith.

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Someone who only knows a little in a foreign language is happier with it than someone who knows it well. Joy belongs to the half-knowers.

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Faith does not move mountains, it actually puts mountains where there are none.

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It doesn't matter for what purpose we lie: to preserve or destroy something with it.

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It is a liberal thing to be satisfied with people, to manage our hearts openly, but it is only liberal. You can recognize the hearts capable of high-class hospitality by the many curtained windows and closed window panes: they keep their best rooms empty. But why? - Because they expect guests with whom people are not "satisfied".

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- "What is the task of all higher education?" - To turn a man into a machine. - "What tools are needed for this?" - Study, be bored. - "How is this achieved?" - With the concept of duty. - "Who can serve as a role model?" - The philologist: who teaches grammar. - "Who is the perfect person?" - The civil servant. - "Which philosophy best describes the role of a civil servant?" - Kant's philosophy: which places the state official as a private thing above the state official as a phenomenon as its judge.

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Complaining can lend a certain charm to life, making it easier to bear: in every complaint there is a small amount of revenge, a person's wretched state of well-being, under certain circumstances, even wretchedness can be blamed on those who are different from He.

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Logical thinking and inference is a process, in our brain today, it corresponds to a battle of instincts, each of which is extremely unreasonable and unjust; we usually only perceive the outcome of the fight: this ancient mechanism takes place within us so quickly and so hidden.

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The thinker primarily wants to be enlightened about something with his own actions and experiments: success and failure are primarily answers for him. But the annoyance or regret at failure is transferred to the people who only act on orders and who must expect a beating if the great lord is not satisfied with the result.

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The Christian decision that found the world ugly and bad made the world ugly and bad.

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From time to time we need to take a break from ourselves, by looking at ourselves from a distance and from above, from an artistic perspective, laughing or crying at ourselves: we need to discover the hero and also the fool who hides in our passion for knowledge, we need to rejoice in our foolishness every now and then so that we can continue to rejoice in our wisdom !

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He who did not have a good father creates one for himself.

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Tolerance allows us to have multiple beliefs about ourselves: they are compatible with each other - they are careful, like the whole world, not to compromise themselves. How do people compromise themselves these days? By being consistent. If you go straight. If it's not ambiguous at least. If original.

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We need educators who were also brought up, superior, classy, ​​authentic at every moment, authentic with every word and silence, mature, sweetened cultures - not educated, uncarved stumps, who today are given to the youth by gymnasiums and universities as "higher nannies" .

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Great minds are skeptics.

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Even if someone goes to the fire for his teaching - what does that prove? I certainly hold it for more, whose teaching catches fire on its own!

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Certainty is maddening, not doubt.

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In order for a person to live alone, he must be an animal or a god, says Aristotle. He does not mention the third case, when one must be both - that is, a philosopher.

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Can a donkey be tragic? - Why does he perish under his burden, which he can neither carry nor throw down?

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The perfect woman treats literature like a small sin: she tries it on, walks past it, looks around to see if she is noticed - and to be noticed.

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If a woman has masculine virtues, everyone runs away from her; if they are not, he himself flees.

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Are you with others? or are you ahead? or do you go your own way? (...) A person must know what he wants and how he wants it.

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It is not enough to tolerate the necessary, even less to hide it - all kinds of idealism are the falsification of the necessary - the necessary must be loved.

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The thinker does not need approval and applause, provided that he receives this applause of his own accord: however, this is not indispensable.

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In most people's minds, the mind is a hard-knocking, dark and creaking machine that is quite difficult to make work.

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The situation with the "rigor of science" is the same as with the formalities and politeness of the best company - that is, it terrifies the uninitiated. But those who are used to it cannot live anywhere else but in this clear, transparent, strong, highly electrically charged air.

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Among philosophers, nothing is rarer than intellectual honesty: they may say the exact opposite of this - and may even believe themselves what they say. But their whole work implies that they allow only certain truths; they know what they have to prove; as philosophers, they almost recognize each other by the fact that they agree on these "truths".

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Science should not be pretended where the time for science has not yet come.

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A superstition about philosophers: they are mistaken for scientific men.

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It is an illusion that we have learned something if we know the mathematical formula of an event: we have only marked it, written it down: nothing more!

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What is originality? To see something that does not yet have a name, that cannot yet be named, although it is equally before everyone's eyes.

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No winner believes in chance.

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The destruction of an illusion will not result in truth, at best our ignorance will only increase, our "empty space" will expand, the area of ​​our "desert" will increase.

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The artist cannot bear any kind of reality, he looks away, looks back: his best conviction is that the true value of everything is the shadow-like residue he gets from color, form, sound, and thought, he believes that the more he refines, airs, and idealizes a thing or a people, they become more valuable: the less realistic something is, the more valuable it is. This is Platonism.

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Nothing is more democratic than logic (...): it knows no personal authority.

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The statement that we have arrived at the truth and thus the end of errors and ignorance is the greatest possible misrepresentation of all time. Let's say they believe it: then the will to investigate, research, foresight, and experiment is paralyzed: it can only prevail facelessly, that is, as doubting the truth...

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Beautiful emotions, "elevated feelings", physiologically speaking, belong to narcotics: their abuse has the same consequence as the abuse of another opium - a weakening of the nerves.

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Being wrong is the most expensive luxury a person can afford.

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Making a living even today - even in our transitional age, when there are so few compelling circumstances - forces almost every European man to assume a certain role, this is his so-called occupation, some are given the freedom, a kind of apparent freedom, to play this role he can choose for himself, but most of them are forced to take on the role chosen for him. The result is rather strange: at a more advanced age, almost all Europeans confuse themselves with their role, they themselves become victims of their own "good little game", they themselves forget how much mood, chance and whim reigned over them when their "occupation" was decided - and how much else they could have played a role: but then it's too late!

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In Europe, the scientist grows out of all social classes and conditions, as a seedling that does not need a specific continent, and therefore belongs, essentially and involuntarily, to the representatives of democratic thought.

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That's how a person is: an article of faith can be refuted a thousand times in front of him, he still accepts it as "true" if he really needs it.

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The lack of personality takes its toll everywhere, a weakened, squeamish, burned out, self-denying and repeatedly denying personality is no longer suitable for anything good.

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If the world had a goal, it would surely have reached it by now.

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Only the individual feels responsible. The multitude was invented to do things that the individual man lacked the courage to do.

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"God" is too extreme a hypothesis.

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A talented person is also a victim of his talent: his talent tyrannizes him like a vampire.

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Compared to music, all verbal communication is shameless; the word dilutes and dulls; the word depersonalizes: it makes ordinary things ordinary.

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Is the will free or not? - There is no will: this is just a simplistic concept of reason.

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Conviction, "faith", the pride of martyrdom - disadvantageous states from the point of view of cognition.

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The desire for faith is confused with the "will for truth" (...). But the desire for unbelief was also confused with the "want of truth" (- the need to get rid of faith - for a thousand reasons; to get justice against all kinds of "believers"). What inspires skeptics? Hatred of dogmatists.

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The properties of a thing are effects on other "things": if we disregard other "things", then the thing has no properties, i.e. there is no thing without other things.