Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:
(Röcken, 15 October 1844 – Weimar, 25 August 1900)
German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet and philologist considered one of the most influential modern thinkers.
Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what ‘truthfulness” is.
The antithesis is the narrow gate through which error prefers to sneak into the truth.
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
What? A great man? I always see only the actor of his own ideal.
In every real man, a child is hidden that wants to play.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.
Live your life in such a way that you must wish to live it again.
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one’s waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Suppose the truth is a woman — then what?
Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.
Freedom I love, and a breeze over a fresh soil. And I would rather sleep on ox-skins than on their honours and respectabilities.
When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
You have no idea what a charming memory you are to me.
Note that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.
Er bestaat kameraadschap, moge het tot vriendschap komen!
Isn’t it better to end up in the hands of a murderer than in the dreams of a rutting woman?
The desire for freedom, the instinct for the refined happiness of the sense of freedom, necessarily belongs to the slave morality and moral behaviour of slaves, while an artful, spirited reverence and devotion are the necessary, fixed symptoms of an aristocratic way of thinking and values.
