Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!”

“For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able ...”

“Who art thou then, O my soul!" (and here [Zarathustra] became frightened, for a sunbeam shot down from heaven upon his face.""O heaven above me," said he sighing, and sat upright, "thou gazest at m...”

“In large States public education will always be extremely mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is at best only mediocre.”

“We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We...”

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

“If you know the why, you can live any how.”

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”

“Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriag...”

“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.”

“That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.”

“[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.”

“Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence.”

“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.”

“Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a pagerather he picks about five words at random out of twenty and "guesses" at the meaning that probably...”

“...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.”

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

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”

“For us, the falsity of a judgment is still no objection to that judgment thats where our new way of speaking sounds perhaps most strange. The question is the extent to which it makes demands on li...”