Nietzche Quotes

“The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.”
― Martin Heidegger

“But as the Professor continued going deeper into the abyss, he suddenly remembered a quotation by the philosopher Nietzsche that he had read in one of the lectures he had given in the last few days:

''... If you refuse to let your own suffering lie upon you for an hour and if you constantly try to prevent and forestall all possible stress ahead of time; if you experience suffering and displeasure as evil, hateful, worthy of annihilation, and as a defect of existence, then it is clear that besides your religion of pity you also harbour another religion in your heart that is perhaps the mother of the religion of pity: the religion of comfortableness. How little you know of human happiness, you comfortable and benevolent people, for happiness and unhappiness are sisters and even twins that either grow up together or, as in your case, remain small together...”
― Anton Sammut, Paceville and Metanoia

“The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...”
― Thomas Stockman

“Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“. . . Nietzche himself had a Christian view of history, seeing the present moment always as some crisis, some fall from classical greatness, some corruption or evil to be saved from.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“El margen sabe lo que el centro olvida, seguramente porque la memoria es el poder del vencido. El triunfador sabe que, como decía Nietzsche, "para ser feliz hay que olvidar", pero ese olvido, aunque le haga feliz, no le hace verdadero.”
― Reyes Mate, La herencia del olvido

“I am utterly amazed, utterly enchanted. I have a precursor, and what a precursor! I hardly knew Spinoza: that I should have turned to him just now, was inspired by “instinct”. Not only his over-all tendency like mine–making knowledge the most powerful affect–but in the five main points of his doctrine I recognize myself; this most unusual and loneliest figure is closest to me precisely in these matters: he denies the freedom of the will, teleology, the moral world order, the unegoistic, and evil. Even though the divergences are admittedly tremendous, they are due more to the difference in time, culture and science. In Summa: my lonesomeness, which, as on very high mountains, often made it hard for me to breathe and made my blood rush out, is now at least a twosomeness. Strange.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“and what fantasy can there possibly be in misery? You sense that it will at length grow weary, that it is exhausting itself in constant tension, this inexhaustible fantasy, because after all one matures, outgrows one's former ideals; they are shattered into dust and fragments; and if you have no other life, it behoves you to construct one from those same fragments.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Ecce homo; si, aquí tenéis al hombre, podéis mirarlo; pero no olvidéis que bajo su humana figura se esconde un dios… Aquí estoy yo, el primer espíritu del siglo, olvidado y despreciado por todos vosotros; soy un desconocido, a pesar de mi grandeza; incluso camino rápidamente hacia la cruz: hacia la demencia, que pronto me arrastrará a sus tinieblas. Mas a pesar de vuestro olvido y vuestro desprecio, «yo soy un destino», soy el heraldo de una nueva época, sobre mí pesa una responsabilidad indecible … Pues yo llevo sobre mis espaldas el destino de la humanidad”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“Bazı intiharlar çok uzun sürüyor... Nietzche'nin intiharı mesela tam elli altı yıl sürmüş!”
― Metin Üstündağ

“El hombre filosófico tiene el presentimiento de que bajo esta realidad en la que vivimos y somos yace una segunda realidad muy distinta, es decir, que ella es una apariencia.”
― Nietzche

“Los libros para todos son siempre libros que huelen mal: el olor de las gentes pequeñas se adhiere a ellos. En lugares donde el pueblo come y bebe, e incluso donde rinde veneración suele heder. No debemos entrar a iglesias si queremos respirar aire puro.”
― Friedritch Nietzsche

“The universal historian finds traces of himself even in the utter depths of the sea.”
― Nietzche Friedrich

“Es ist das Zufällige, was einem zufällt.”
― Ingo Metzmacher, Keine Angst vor neuen Tönen. Eine Reise in die Welt der Musik