Quotes About Nietzsche

You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.

According to Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra was the source of the 'profoundest error in human history – namely the invention of morality'.

Idealism kills," the philosopher Nietzsche had warned

A waitress, bringing Finkler more hot water, interrupted Treslove's answer. Finkler always asked for more hot water no matter how much hot water had already been brought. It was his way of asserting power, Treslove thought. No doubt Nietzsche, too, ordered more hot water than he needed.

Indeed, Nietzsche believed that the only possibility for existence was for each of us to become gods ourselves.

There is in Shaw, as in Gurdjieff and Nietzsche, a recognition of the immense effort of Will that is necessary to express even a little freedom, that places them beside Pascal and St. Augustine as religious thinkers. Their view is saved from pessimism only by its mystical recognition of the possibilities of pure Will, freed from the entanglements of automatism

Don't be bitter and mean 'couse you don't fit in, it's a GIFT. Look at you. you've got your individuality, you don't have the herd instinct, you can read Neitzsche and understand it. Only dumb people are happy.

Don't be bitter and mean 'cause you don't fit in, it's a GIFT. Look at you. You've got your individuality, you don't have the herd instinct, you can read Nietzsche and understand it. Only dumb people are happy.

My own view is that left-wing positions largely come about from resentment - I agree with Nietzsche about this - a resentment about the surrounding social order. They have privileges, I don't. Or, I have them and I can't live up to them.

The freaking Leanansidhe, deputy of Her Wickedness, with her Nietzsche and Darwin Were Sentimental Pansies outlook on life

There is not a reactionary, however extreme, who dares speak ill of the god People. It took an eccentric like Nietzsche to dare such a thing, and it makes him look like the exception that proves the rule.

The opposition of reason and religion that runs through the French Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, which identified religion with the Catholic Church, would have been incomprehensible to Leibniz, and a like opposition never gained a footing in German culture even after him. On the contrary, the acutest critic of Christianity, Nietzsche, shows his German roots by the fact that he simultaneously wages war on reason - which would again have been incomprehensible to Voltaire.

Nietzsche criticized the high esteem accorded to consciousness, particularly the consequences of Socrates' disastrous idea that 'everything must be conscious to be good.

Friedrich Nietzsche, originator of the slogan "God is dead", reported that at times he was overcome by gratitude. This admission is most interesting, because gratitude is not a self-regarding attitude like pleasure, but an other-regarding attitude like anger. It presupposes someone to whom gratitude is owed.

Nietzsche wanted to explode the framework of Occidental rationalism within which the competitors of Left and Right Hegelianism still moved. His antihumanism, continued by Heidegger and Bataille in two variations, is the real challenge for the discourse of modernity.

We love life, thought Reine-Marie as she watched Ruth and Rosa sitting side by side, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. Nietzsche. How Armand would kid her if he knew she was quoting Nietzsche, even to herself.

Women are quite capable of entering into a friendship with a man, but to keep it going that takes a little physical antipathy as well.

The Genealogy of Morals

Progressive thievery is thievery of a special sort, thievery that marches behind the banner of justice. In one of his other books, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche writes that for the avengers, justice is a camouflage for envy and revenge; these are "tyrants who shroud themselves in words of virtue.

He used simple words and did not hesitate to tell what he later described as "colossal untruths." He sought to incite hatred toward those he considered traitors—the "November criminals" whose treachery had cost Germany the war—and he returned each day to what Nietzsche had called the ideology "of those who feel cheated": anti-Semitism.

In heaven all the interesting people are missing. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

In their response to nihilism both Nietzsche and Heidegger rely on what is perhaps the central tenet of fascism in all its forms: the idea that particular human ecologies are the ultimate source of meaning.

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.