Nietzsche
Home ~ Literature ~ Aphorisms ~ Search by author ~ Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - born October 15, 1844 in Röcken (near Leipzig), Prussia. German philosopher, representative of irrationalism. He sharply criticized the religion, culture and morality of his time and developed his own ethical theory. Nietzsche's philosophy had a great influence on the formation of existentialism and postmodernism, and also became very popular in literary and artistic circles. The interpretation of his works is quite difficult and still causes a lot of controversy. Author of works - “The Birth of Tragedy, or Hellenism and Pessimism”, “Human, All Too Human. A book for free minds”, “Beyond good and evil. Prelude to the philosophy of the future”, “Twilight of the Idols, or how one philosophizes with a hammer”, “Reflections in a dressing gown”, etc. Died on August 25, 1900 in a psychiatric hospital in Weimar, Germany.
If God wanted to become an object of love, then he should first renounce the position of a judge dispensing justice: a judge, and even a merciful judge, is not an object of love.
Author:
Nietzsche
Virtue only gives happiness and some kind of bliss to those who firmly believe in their own virtue - not at all to refined souls, whose virtue consists in a deep distrust of themselves and of all virtue. In the end, here too “faith makes you blessed”! - and not, notice this carefully, virtue!
Author:
Nietzsche
Hurting someone we love is pure hell. In relation to ourselves, this is the state of heroic people: extreme violence. The desire to go to the opposite extreme also applies here.
Author:
Nietzsche
Strange! As soon as I keep silent about some thought and stay away from it, this very thought certainly appears to me embodied in the form of a person, and now I have to be kind to this “angel of God”!
Author:
Nietzsche
There is nothing in my head except personal morality, and creating for myself the right to it is the meaning of all my historical questions about morality. It is terribly difficult to create such a right for yourself.
Author:
Nietzsche
To someone who has an aversion to the sublime, not only “yes” but also “no” seems too pathetic - he does not belong to the denying minds, and if he happens to find himself on their paths, he suddenly stops and runs away - into the thicket of skepticism.
Author:
Nietzsche
Anyone who is able to strongly feel the gaze of a thinker cannot escape the terrible impression made by animals whose eyes slowly, as if on a rod, stare out of their heads and look around.
Author:
Nietzsche
Marriage is invented for mediocre people who are mediocre both in great love and in great friendship - therefore, for the majority: but also for those quite rare people who are capable of both love and friendship.
Author:
Nietzsche
The teaching and the apostle, who does not see the weakness of his teaching, his religion, etc., blinded by the authority of the teacher and reverence for him, usually have greater power than the teacher. Never before had a man's influence and his deeds grown without blind disciples.
Author:
Nietzsche
An evil god is needed no less than a good one - after all, you do not owe your own existence to tolerance and philanthropy. What is the use of a god who does not know anger, envy, cunning, ridicule, vindictiveness and violence?
Author:
Nietzsche
Without the tenets of faith, no one could live even a moment! But thus these dogmas are by no means proven. Life is not an argument at all; among the conditions of life there could be delusion.
Author:
Nietzsche
Heroism is the mood of a person striving for a goal beyond which he no longer counts. Heroism is the good will to absolute self-destruction.
Author:
Nietzsche (Hero)
God himself cannot exist without wise people,” said Luther, and with every right; but “God can even less exist without stupid people”—Luther didn’t say that!
Author:
Nietzsche
Those with fever see only the ghosts of things, and those who have a normal temperature see only the shadows of things; Moreover, both need the same words.
Author:
Nietzsche
Love of life is almost the opposite of love of longevity. All love thinks of the moment and eternity, but never of duration.
Author:
Nietzsche
You lovers of knowledge! What have you done so far out of love for knowledge? Have you already committed a theft or murder to find out what is in the soul of a thief and murderer?
Author:
Nietzsche
In the heat of struggle, one can sacrifice one’s life: but the one who wins is consumed by the temptation to throw away his life. Every victory has contempt for life.
Author:
Nietzsche
Perfect knowledge of necessity would eliminate all “shoulds,” but would also comprehend the necessity of “oughts” as a consequence of ignorance.
Author:
Nietzsche
We praise what suits our taste: this means that when we praise, we praise our own taste - doesn’t this sin against all good taste?
Author:
Nietzsche
Philosophy opens to man a refuge where no tyranny can penetrate, a valley of inner peace, a labyrinth of the heart, and this irritates tyrants.
Author:
Nietzsche (Philosophy)
Man is a rope stretched between an animal and a superman - a rope over an abyss. What is valuable about a person is that he is a bridge, not a goal.
Author:
Nietzsche
And truth demands, like all women, that her lover become a liar for her sake, but it is not her vanity that demands this, but her cruelty.
Author:
Nietzsche
I distinguish among those who philosophize two types of people: some always think about their defense, others about attacking their enemies.
Author:
Nietzsche
Whose thought has at least once crossed the bridge leading to mysticism does not return from there without thoughts not marked by stigmata.
Author:
Nietzsche
A man who has never thought about money, about honor, about acquiring influential connections - how can he know people?
Author:
Nietzsche
Whoever wants to become a leader of people must, for a good period of time, be known among them as their most dangerous enemy.
Author:
Nietzsche
Blood is the worst witness to truth; blood poisons the purest teaching to the point of madness and hatred of hearts.
Author:
Nietzsche
A person forgets his guilt when he confesses it to another, but the latter usually does not forget it.
Author:
Nietzsche
Perhaps love your neighbor as yourself. But above all, be someone who loves yourself.
Author:
Nietzsche
There is already not enough love and goodness in the world to be lavished on imaginary beings.
Author:
Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche. Quotes and aphorisms
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) - German philosopher, poet and philologist.
No winner believes in chance!
The greatest events are not our noisiest hours, but our quietest hours.
You can always close your eyes to what you see, but you can’t close your heart to what you feel...
In some cases, you can remain a philosopher only by remaining silent.
Talking a lot about yourself is also a way to hide yourself.
Life isn't hard. Only human stupidity makes it difficult.
What doesn't happen is much more important than what happened...
To think differently from what is customary is associated not so much with the action of a more developed intellect, but with the action of strong, evil inclinations, rejecting, isolating, contradicting, gloating, insidious inclinations.
“Faith” is the unwillingness to know the truth.
Don't be afraid of losing someone. You will not lose the one you need in life. Those who were sent to you for experience are lost. Those who remain are those sent to you by fate.
To force oneself to have a good opinion of oneself, and then to sacredly believe in its justice - who succeeds in this trick better than a woman?
Only those who are man enough will liberate the woman in the woman.
A woman perceives a man as a friend if he is unable to achieve more.
Let a man fear a woman when she loves: for she makes any sacrifice and every other thing has no value for her. Let a man fear a woman when she hates: for a man, deep down in his soul, is only evil, and a woman is still bad.
What is done for the sake of love occurs outside the realm of good and evil.
For too long, the slave and the tyrant have been hidden in woman. Therefore, a woman is not yet capable of friendship: she knows only love. In a woman's love there is injustice and blindness to everything she does not love. But even in a woman’s known love there is always surprise, and lightning, and night next to the light. A woman is not yet capable of friendship: women are still cats and birds. Or, at best, cows.
Comparing man and woman, we can say that a woman would not have developed the genius of beautifying herself if she had not had a constant instinctive awareness of her secondary role.
The warrior does not like fruits that are too sweet. That's why he loves a woman; The sweetest woman still has bitterness.
Those who loved a person most always caused him the greatest pain; like all lovers, they demanded the impossible from him.
Love your neighbor as you love yourself - but above all, be those who love themselves.
The fact that someone feels “guilty” or “sinful” does not at all prove that he has the right to feel this way; just as few people turn out to be healthy simply because they feel healthy.
The danger of the wise is that he is most susceptible to the temptation of falling in love with the foolish.
We are alien to ourselves, we who know, we are alien to ourselves: there is a good reason for this. We never looked for ourselves - how could it happen that we one day found ourselves? It is rightly said: “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also”; our treasure is where the hives of our knowledge stand.
You need to have a lot of imaginative power to be able to experience compassion.
It is only his thoughts that make a person unhappy or happy, not external circumstances. By controlling his thoughts, he controls his happiness.
Some people fail in life, a poisonous worm gnaws at their heart. May they use all their strength to make death a better success for them.
Beware of the good and righteous! They love to crucify those who invent their own virtue for themselves.
The freer and stronger the individual, the more demanding his love becomes.
You need to be able to preserve yourself - the strongest test of independence.
To create an ideal means to remake your devil into your God. And to do this, you must first create your own devil.
One goes to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and the other because he would like to lose himself.
A little poison from time to time - it brings pleasant dreams. And at the end I’ll add more poison to make dying more pleasant.
And if you no longer have a single ladder, you must learn to climb on your own head: how else would you want to climb higher?
Let them say anything to hurt me. They know me too little to know what really hurts me.
We often call hypocrisy the rules of decency.
And whoever among people does not want to die of thirst must learn to drink from all glasses; and whoever wants to remain clean among people must be able to wash with dirty water.
A hypocrite who constantly plays the same role eventually ceases to be a hypocrite.
The one who praises pretends that he is giving credit, but in reality he wants to receive even more!
People lie freely with their mouths, but the faces they make at the same time still tell the truth.
When you appreciate what you have, and not live in search of ideals... then you will truly become happy...
A person is forever chained to the past: no matter how far and fast he runs, the chain runs with him...
It was not the fact that you deceived me, but the fact that I could no longer trust you that shocked me.
He who fights monsters must be careful not to become a monster himself. And if you look into the abyss for a long time, then the abyss also looks into you.
He who cannot command himself must obey.
It is impossible to be free from what you are running away from.
Art, and nothing but art, art was given to us so as not to die from the truth.
The so-called paradoxes of the author, which shock the reader, are often not in the author’s book, but in the reader’s head.
The subtlest humor evokes the most imperceptible smile.
The iron said this to the magnet: “What I hate most of all is that you attract without having enough strength to drag you along!”
Each soul has a special world; for every soul, every other soul is the other world.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions to be shattered.
We dislike someone else's vanity only when it offends our vanity.
We stay so willingly in the lap of nature because it has no opinion about us.
If you decide to take action, close the door to doubt.
To comprehend the truth, one must be worthy of it.
Hope dies - purpose is born!
You have to learn not to notice yourself in order to see a lot.
The wider you open your arms, the easier it is to crucify you.
Don't think too much. This is how you create problems that weren’t there in the first place.
He who does not carry chaos within himself will not give birth to stars.
The path of the great is winding
The famous German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844 in the town of Recken near Lützen.
The philosopher's ancestors were the Polish nobles of Nitzky. The father, Karl Ludwig Nietzsche, was a parish priest; he received the church parish from the Prussian king Frederick William IV. The philosopher owes his name to his father’s deep reverence for the king.
Unfortunately, the family lost their breadwinner early - he died at the age of thirty-six - when Friedrich was not even five years old. Like his father, Frederick was in poor health, and his entire physical condition bore the mark of his passing life. The desire to overcome the illness resulted in spiritual activity, the desire to live a full, multifaceted life. He is seriously interested in music, even composing it. His poetic talent is revealed. At the age of ten, he seriously thinks about the compositions of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn. Music remained with him throughout his life. Music illuminated his philosophical thoughts and poetry.
Later, being interested in theology and philology, Nietzsche gave preference to philology; he studied at the University of Leipzig in the seminars of Professor F.V. Richlya.
At twenty-two, Nietzsche was an employee of the Central Literary Newspaper.
He later became professor of classical philology at the University of Basel.
From his pen come works written in the genre of philosophical and artistic prose and poetry.
The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music is Nietzsche's first published book. Then there will be “Twilight of Idols”, “Human, All Too Human”, “The Gay Science”, “Morning Dawn”, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, “Beyond Good and Evil”, “Genealogy of Morals” and others.
In Russia, we became acquainted with the work of Friedrich Nietzsche when his main works had already been published. Nietzsche's thoughts were ahead of the development of society. During his lifetime, he had difficulty finding publishers for his books. Only lonely voices supported him. But time passed, and many found spiritual intimacy with him.
After Nietzsche's death in 1900, his letters were published, in which one can read about the philosopher's “Russian interests.”
European critics of those years often mentioned the closeness of Nietzsche’s work to Russian culture, in particular to the works of F.M. Dostoevsky, L.N. Tolstoy.
One way or another, truly Russian culture, like Nietzsche’s work, is characterized by a slight melancholy, artless melancholy, and dreaminess. The “philosophy of life” permeates all the work of this outstanding representative of German culture.
This book contains the most valuable seeds of Friedrich Nietzsche's thoughts.
L.M. Martyanova
