One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
romantic · german-philosophy
Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche · 1844–1900 · German
Philologist who turned aphorism into a weapon. Become who you are, live dangerously, and do not accuse — look away.
I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish only to be a Yes-sayer.
Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.
There are no moral phenomena at all, only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
What does your conscience say? — You shall become the person you are.
What makes one heroic? — Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The state has never any concern with truth, but only with the truth useful to it, or rather, with anything that is useful to it, be it truth, half-truth, or error.
I live in my own place, have never copied nobody even half, and at any master who lacks the grace to laugh at himself — I laugh.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.