Quotes About Nietzsche

They want more, they learn to make claims, the tribute of respect is at last felt to be well-nigh galling; rivalry for rights, indeed actual strife itself, would be preferred: in a word, woman is losing modesty. And let us immediately add that she is also losing taste. She is unlearning to fear man: but the woman who unlearns to fear sacrifices her most womanly instincts.

To impose the character of being upon becoming is the supreme test of power.

The God that Nietzsche imagined, in the end, was not far from the God that such an artist as Joseph Conrad imagines—a supreme craftsman, ever experimenting, ever coming closer to an ideal balancing of lines and forces, and yet always failing to work out the final harmony.

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

The fleetest beast to bear you to perfection is suffering.

In fact, however, Nietzsche's very first book, The Birth, constitutes a declaration of independence from Schopenhauer: while Nietzsche admires him for honestly facing up to the terrors of existence, Nietzsche himself celebrates Greek tragedy as a superior alternative to Schopenhauer's "Buddhistic negation of the will." From tragedy Nietzsche learns that one can affirm life as sublime, beautiful, and joyous in spite of all suffering and cruelty.

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed

But let me reveal my heart to you entirely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god! Hence there are no gods.

O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in the truth, and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely—il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien—I wager he finds nothing!

An incalculable number of higher individuals now perish: but he who escapes their fate is as strong as the devil.

Dante, or the hyena that writes poetry in tombs.

Insight into the origin of a work concerns the physiologists and vivisectionists of the spirit; never the aesthetic man, the artist!

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected", Nietzsche asked in his book The Gay Science, "that he who wants the greatest possible amount of one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other?

If you could imagine dissonance assuming human form - and what else is man? - this dissonance would need, to be able to live, a magnificent illusion which would spread a veil of beauty over its own nature." Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, ed. R. Geuss & R. Speirs, Cambridge, 2007, 163. (p.154)

When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that being is merely a continual has been, a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

Have I been understood??Dionysus against the crucified one...

And finally, to call to mind the enormous influence which German philosophy--I hope you understand its right to inverted commas-

in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled.

Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.

Zarathustra saw many lands and many peoples: thus he discovered the good and evil of many peoples. No greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than good and evil.

They dislike, therefore, to hear of 'contempt' of themselves. So I will appeal to their pride.

When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates.

If everything we project onto reality to make it intelligible were eliminated, ? no things remain but only dynamic quanta, in a relation of tension to all other dynamic quanta.