The Portable Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.”
“God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.”
“Can you give yourself your own evil and your own good and hang your own will over yourself as a law? Can you be your own judge and avenger of your law? Terrible it is to be alone with the judge and avenger of one's own law. Thus is a star thrown out into the void and into the icy breath of solitude. Today you are still suffering from the many being one: today your courage and your hopes are still whole. But the time will come when solitude will make you weary, when your pride will double up and your courage gnash its teeth. And you will cry, "I am alone!" The time will come when that which seems high to you will no longer be in sight, and that which seems low will be all-too-near; even what seems sublime to you will frighten you like a ghost And you will cry, "All is false!”
“if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire. .”
“Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!”
“truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins. We still do not know where the urge for truth comes from; for as yet we have heard only of the obligation imposed by society that it should exist: to be truthful means using the customary metaphors—in moral terms: the obligation to lie according to a fixed convention, to lie herd-like in a style obligatory for all. . . .”
“For, believe me, the secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!”
“Thereby men do not flee from being deceived as much as from being damaged by deception: what they hate at this stage is basically not the deception but the bad, hostile consequences of certain kinds of deceptions. In a similarly limited way man wants the truth: he desires the agreeable life-preserving consequences of truth, but he is indifferent to pure knowledge, which has no consequences; he is even hostile to possibly damaging and destructive truths.”
“Nothing avails: every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for mastership. [408]”
“Misunderstanding of the dream. In the ages of crude primeval culture man believed that in dreams he got to know another real world; here is the origin of all metaphysics.”
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Book Keywords:
virtue, zarathustra, deeds, romance
