Quotes from Nietzsche, Friedrich

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

As long as you still experience the stars as something above you, you lack the eye of knowledge.

The pure soul is a pure lie.

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be frightening and ugly," then they need to search.

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.

Ich sage euch: man muß noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können.

it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

Notre religion, notre morale, notre philosophie, en sont que des formes de decadence de l humanite, le contre mouvement: l art