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

Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them their prescriptions for making life easier — their Christianity, for example.

The sum of the inner movements which a man finds easy and as a consequence performs gracefully and with pleasure, one calls his soul; if these inner movements are plainly difficult and an effort for...

Language as putative science. – The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to...

When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to...

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

The sedentary life…is the real sin against the holy spirit.

A rebel can be a miserable and contemptible man; but there is nothing contemptible in a revolt as such – and to be a rebel in view of contemporary society does not in itself lower...

Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child – let that be your word concerning virtue!

perempuan belajar membenci dengan cara yang sama saat mereka–belajar melupakan cara memperdaya

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has...

I demand from a book harmony as unity and moderation; that determines the choice of words, the type and number of metaphors, the development and conclusion

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.

Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority– where he may forget “men who are the rule,” as their exception;– exclusive...

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

The beast lives unhistorically; for it ‘goes into’ the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder.

Anarchists are mouthpieces of a declining stratum of society; when they work themselves into a state of righteous indignation demanding ‘rights’, ‘justice’, ‘equal rights’, they are just acting under the pressure of their own lack...

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. “Good” is no longer good when one’s neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a “common good”! The term contradicts itself: whatever...

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.

ketidaksukaan pada yang kotor dapat menjadi sedemikian besar sehingga hal itu akan mencegah kita membersihkan diri

Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight...

Not without deep pain do we admit to ourselves that the artists of all ages have in their highest flights carried to heavenly transfiguration precisely those conceptions that we now recognize as false: they are...

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking–humanity itself?

To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

Man is the cruelest animal,” says Zarathustra. “When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other time on Earth. And when he invented Hell…lo, Hell was his Heaven on...

base.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay...

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from...

Your educators can only be your liberators.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the...

Was it not part of the secret black art of truly grand politics of revenge, of a farseeing, subterranean, slowly advancing, and premeditated revenge, that Israel must itself deny the real instrument of its revenge...

The craft, trade, agriculture, science, a large part of the art – all this can only stand on a broad base , on a consolidated, strong and healthy mediocrity. Served in their services and the...

Every word is a prejudice.

One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.

I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are...

The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting.