Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Gay Quotes

The Gay Science, section 108

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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

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Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

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What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

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Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

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I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

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It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .

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It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

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Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

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Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

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Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.

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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

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That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

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The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

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Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

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He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

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A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

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How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.

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Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own.

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Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

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