Friedrich Nietzsche Lt Quotations

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.

As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.

I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture.

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.

The English are the people of consummate cant.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.