Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

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

[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.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.

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.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.