Quotes About Nietzsche

We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake.

El fuego arde en las entrañas de Leonora, nunca ha experimentado algo semejante: -¿Es esto el amor? Max le responde que el amor nace del deseo por alguien y que Nietzsche dijo: -<> -¿Y qué pasa si descubrimos su imperfección? -Viene el desamor.

Othello's suicide is profoundly moving; but it does not make us feel suicidal. What moves us is the way in which Shakespeare (and Verdi) made sense out of tragedy by making it part of an artistic whole. As Nietzsche realized, even tragedy is an affirmation of life.

I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.

I like Nietzsche. I quote him in many of my books. He was born 100 years before me.

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

Perhaps I am even envious of Stendhal? He robbed me of the best atheist joke which precisely I could have made: 'God's only excuse is that he does not exist'...I myself have said somewhere: what hitherto been the greatest objection to existence? God ...

If the morality of thou shalt not lie is rejected, the sense for truth will have to legitimize itself before another tribunal:— as a means of the preservation of man, as will to power.

Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.

He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles when a carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves. *** Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue. Where is the frenzy with which you should be inoculated. Behold. I give you the Ubermensch. He is this lightning. He is this frenzy.

Woman was God's second mistake.

In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.

Though I may seem at times somewhat distant from you, through the gray mist of philology, I am never far, my thoughts always circle around you.

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.