It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
Oh, they said God was dead, all those beatniks and snooty-ass Frenchmen. Not me. I knew better. I said to them, Wait, boys! Don't break cover yet awhile. He might be faking. I mean, they thought Sadda...
We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.
I myself found a fascinating example of this in Nietzsche’s book Thus Spake Zarathustra, where the author reproduces almost word for word an incident reported in a ship’s log for the year 1686. By she...
Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him of what he called 'the love of your fate.' Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say,...
If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.
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.
¿Sabe lo que es saber que, cuando muera, pueden pasar días o semanas sin que se descubra mi cuerpo, antes de que el olor fétido atraiga a algún extraño? Intento consolarme. A veces, cuando me siento m...
Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.
Sombres, dites-vous? Mais posez-vous la question docteur : pourquoi tous les grands philosophes sont-ils sombres? Demandez-vous qui sont les gens satisfaits, rassurés et éternellement joyeux! Laissez-...
What doesn't kill us makes a good story.
For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoev...
To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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.
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.
You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.
See Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last man (London: Penguin, 1993). Note the often-overlooked second part where Fukuyama criticizes the end of history as leading to the last man.
No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.
Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew;...