720 ordspråk av Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty /he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world /alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
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In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.
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In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs
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In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs
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Insanity in individuals is something rare, but in groups, parties, nations and epochs it is the rule
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Insanity is the exception in individuals. In groups, parties, peoples, and times it is the rule.
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Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?
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Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
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Is Wagner actually a man? Is he not rather a disease? Everything he touches falls ill; he has made music sick
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It has been said that misfortune sharpens our wits, but . . . it often simply dulls them.
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It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author - and that he did not learn it better.
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