Is Wagner actually a man? Is he not rather a disease? Everything he touches falls ill; he has made music sick.
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them.
A man’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.
If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants.
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both – a philosopher.
The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence.
A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the ‘noble’, that is also Christian. Hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the sense, of the joy […]
Every past is worth condemning.
Man… cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
The will to overcome a passion is in the end merely the will of another or several other passions.
