Quotes About Nietzsche

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.

One does not escape the fate of Nietzsche's teaching so long as one recognizes strength only as strength and weakness only as weakness.

But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.

Afortunadamente, como aprendimos de Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard y Nietzsche, esta contradicción y este conflicto son una señal más de que la lógica y la razón son impotentes.

I've always liked this Nietzsche quote: "You must still have chaos in yourself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." There's a lot to love about that, I think. Not least, personally, as it gives me hope that whatever sprawling, chaotic, nonsensical draft I'm working on might eventually turn out good. In writing as in life.

Nietzsche was a revelation to me. I felt that there was someone quite different from what I had been taught. I read him with a great passion and broke with my life, left my job in the asylum, left France: I had the feeling I had been trapped. Through Nietzsche, I had become a stranger to all that.

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify?

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Ik denk.' Nietzsche trekt deze bewering, gedicteerd door een grammaticale conventie die eist dat elk werkwoord een onderwerp heeft, in twijfel. In feite, zegt hij, 'komt een gedachte wanneer 'zij' wil, zodanig dat het een vervalsing van de feiten is om te zeggen: het subject 'ik' is de voorwaarde van het predikaat 'denk'. Een gedachte komt tot de filosoof 'van buitenaf, uit de hoogte of uit de diepte, als gebeurtenissen of bliskemschichten die voor hem bestemd zijn'.

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

Nietzsche thinks artists undersexed]: "Their vampire, their talent, grudges them as a rule that squandering of force which one calls passion. If one has a talent, one is also its victim; one lives under the vampirism of one's talent." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, as quoted in Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae

That the death of God involves the death of Man, along with the birth of a new form of humanity, is orthodox Christian doctrine, a fact of which Nietzsche seems not to have been aware.

What Nietzsche recognises is that you can get rid of God only if you also do away with innate meaning. The Almighty can survive tragedy, but not absurdity.

Man's Search for Meaning has gone on to sell over twelve million copies. Frankl's message was that even in the face of unimaginable bleakness, humans can find hope. "You do not have to suffer to learn, but if you don't learn from suffering . . . then your life becomes truly meaningless." The key, he said, is to imagine a better time, to have a reason to live. He quotes Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vadar in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug Howl the eternal yes

To be alone, and without gods, this—this it is, is Death," Hölderlin puts into Empedocles's mouth in the play and maybe in this we can trace the first whisper of the gigantic tragedy that Nietzsche would articulate in the death of God.

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