Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes - Page 9

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

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

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking-humanity itself?

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right -especially when one is right.

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

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

There is no beast without cruelty

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.