120 Quotes About Nietzsche

I cannot differentiate between tears and music' (Nietzsche). Whoever is not immediately struck by the profundity of this statement has not lived for a minute in the intimacy of music. I know no other music than that of tears. Born out of the loss of paradise, music gives birth to the symbols of this loss: tears.

Meine HärteIch muss weg über hundert Stufen,Ich muss empor und hör euch rufen:"Hart bist du; sind wir denn von Stein?" —Ich muss weg über hundert Stufen,Und Niemand möchte Stufe sein.

Pessimism is a sign of decay, optimism is a sign of superficiality; "tragic optimism" is the mood of the strong man who seeks intensity and extent of experience, even at the cost of woe, and is delighted to find that strife is the law of life.

They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic.

There is literally no way to have an opinion, in public, in 2018 AD, and not be involved in the hierarchy of global evil.

As the savage progresses, he acquires experience and formulates codes of 'right' and 'wrong' from his memories of those courses which have helped or hurt him... Then out of the principle of barter comes the illusion of 'justice' ...

Life was indeed cruel; but it was better to glorify the Will than deny it.

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.

Bier is een kalmeringsmiddel; het verdooft je gedachten en strijkt elke neiging tot opstandigheid glad. Totalitaire staten blussen sociale branden met de bierspuit. Nietzsche haatte dit piskleurige vocht omdat het de 'geest van de logheid' voedde.