"If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy."
Read quote
3 likes
Quote collection
Friedrich Nietzsche quotes (page 84 of 125)
2.5K quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss."
Read quote
3 likes
"We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us."
Read quote
3 likes
"We only hear questions that we are able to answer."
Read quote
3 likes
"The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language."
Read quote
3 likes
"Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before."
Read quote
3 likes
"The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil."
Read quote
3 likes
"Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!"
Read quote
3 likes
"Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside"
Read quote
3 likes
"If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!"
Read quote
3 likes
"Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth."
Read quote
3 likes
"The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions."
Read quote
3 likes
"The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest."
Read quote
3 likes
"Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder."
Read quote
3 likes
"The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman."
Read quote
3 likes
"When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled."
Read quote
3 likes
"Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth."
Read quote
3 likes
"In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power—until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is—art."
Read quote
3 likes
"Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse."
Read quote
3 likes
"My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings."
Read quote
3 likes