On Nietzsche Quotes

We can't rely on anything. Except ourselves. Ludicrous responsibility devolves on us, overwhelms us. In every regard, right up the present, people always have relied on each other - or God. ~ Georges Bataille

...not every proposition should be taken as a final assertion. When Nietzsche writes down a sentence, this does not necessarily mean that he thinks that this is the only way of understanding things. His thought is a constant searching and attempting - an experimental effort that is still to be tested. The written sentence is to be regarded only as an experimental piece, which, on closer consideration or in another connection, may be critically handled or rejected. ~ Bertaux

Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that this work of Nietzsche's played much role in the gestation of the novella. ~ Philip Kitcher

What is the strongest cure?
Victory. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree. ~ Bobby Fischer

Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Creating - that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Prior to Flew, major apologies for atheism were those of Enlightenment thinkers (David Hume, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ludwig Feuerbach, and Friedrich Nietzsche).

Major philosophers of Flew's generation who were atheists: W. V. O. Quine and Gilbert Ryle. But none took the step of developing book-length arguments to support their personal beliefs.

In later years, atheist philosophers who critically examined and rejected the traditional arguments for God's existence: Paul Edwards, Wallace Matson, Kai Nielsen, Paul Kurtz, J. L. Mackie, Richard Gale, Michael Martin. But their works did not change the agenda and framework of discussion the way Flew's innovative publications did. ~ Antony Flew

Plato's objection to the older art
that it is the imitation of a phantom and hence belongs to a sphere even lower than the empirical world
could certainly not be directed against the new art; and so we find Plato endeavoring to transcend reality and to represent the idea which underlies this pseudo-reality. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Have you ever said Yes to a single joy? O my friends, then you have said Yes too to all woe. All things are entangled, ensnared, enamored; if ever you wanted one thing twice, if ever you said, "You please me, happiness! Abide, moment!" then you wanted all back. All anew, all eternally, all entangled, ensnared, enamored
oh then you loved the world. Eternal ones, love it eternally and evermore; and to woe too, you say: go, but return! For all joy wants
eternity. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

the way of the sick soul seems unmanly and diseased.' This was the fault line, the precise point where my mind bifurcated. I longed to have a mystical experience that would fuse these parts together. I yearned for an unequivocal, undivided mind and a soul of 'sky-blue tint'. A shadow lay across my soul. I could glimpse it, feel its weight. But what it was or why it was there I could not fathom. I found James's pragmatism reassuring and steadying, in contrast to Nietzsche, that pyschopomp of misguided youth, to whom the ego was just a jumble of unrelated thoughts that only assume a semblance of order after the fact. ~ Magda Szubanski

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

No one tells me anything new, so I tell myself my own story. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Many short follies - that is called love by you. And your marriage putteth an end to many short follies, with one long stupidity. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness) ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone
by teasing, for example. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

A small company is more welcome to me than a bad one: but they must come and go at the right time. So does it accord with good sleep. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

This passage, in fact, makes strikingly clear that both at the level of ontogenesis (the development of the child) and phylogenesis (the development of the human species) mimesis, for Nietzsche, precedes language and allows communication to take place. ~ Nidesh Lawtoo

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

If I only had the courage of thinking all that I know. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche