And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. Goodreads helps you follow your favorite authors. I have my way. Your great friends wouldn't perish, struck down by your smallness.”, “Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. You murdered Rathenau. And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. You forgot the living energy of your labor and chose the idea of the state. Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people. “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.64, Modern Library, Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”, “No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”, “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”, “The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”, “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.”, “Is man merely a mistake of God's? Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist", “The final reward of the dead - to die no more”, “Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.46, Courier Corporation, Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics, Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”, “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”, “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”, “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”, “There are no facts, only interpretations.”, “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”, “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”, “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. and chose the subhuman. You had your choice between Lodge and Wilson. Hope Man Reality Worst. 'Why so tragic?' A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.”, “If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.”. Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”, “We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”, “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”, “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”, “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”, “One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”, “The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.”, “Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?”, “When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.”, “I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself”, “You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. In reality, however, it is quite otherwise with you: while you pretend to read with rapture the canon of your law in Nature, you want something quite the contrary, you extraordinary stage-players and self-deluders! He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. 'Do you feel responsible for all evil?' At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him of what he called 'the love of your fate.' Born in Röcken bei Lützen, Germany, Nietzsche was named after the King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm IV,... Education. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche. To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness. I don't believe you really want an answer. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”, “There is always some madness in love. He is fundamentally unsound.”. Heil! You chose Stalin's dictatorship. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow. To live—is not that just endeavouring to be otherwise than this Nature? And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"—how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Friedrich Nietzsche. Bent is the path of eternity.”, “But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.”, “A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.”, “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”, “I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die.”, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living, The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language. Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves INDIFFERENCE as a power—how COULD you live in accordance with such indifference? In the French Revolution, you had your choice between the cruel Robespierre and the great Danton. Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed. Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd. There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. 101 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes on Love, Truth, and Morality Early Years. You tortured and humiliated the great Galileo, from whose inventions you are still benefiting, and now, in the twentieth century, you have brought the methods of the Inquisition to a new flowering. But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain? You made Himmler your police chief and murdered your great friends. Welcome back. Every day we present the best quotes! Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be? ', “It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography; and moreover that the moral (or immoral) purpose in every philosophy has constituted the true vital germ out of which the entire plant has always grown.”, “Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […].