Allef Vinicius

50 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes You Should Memorize Before Your Next Date With A Hipster

Wisdom as impressive as their mustache. 
Heidi Priebe
January 31, 2017
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit… He that writes with blood and proverbs does not want to be read, but learned by heart. In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak, but for that route you must have long legs. Proverbs should be peaks, and those spoken to should be big and tall.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Tagged: Aphorisms, Writing, Write with Blood
“Gradually we become tired of the old, of what we safely possess, and we stretch out our hands again. Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some more distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Awalys Move, Change, Ennui, Possession
“Have we ever complained because we are misunderstood, misjudged, misidentified, slandered, misheard, and not heard? Precisely this is our fate — oh, for a long time yet! It is also our distinction; we should not honor ourselves sufficiently if we wished that it were otherwise. We are misidentified — because we ourselves keep growing, keep changing, we shed our old bark, we shed our skins every spring, we keep becoming younger, fuller of future, taller, stronger, we push our roots ever more powerfully into the depths — into evil— while at the same time we embrace the heavens ever more lovingly, more broadly, imbibing their light ever more thirstily with all our twigs and leaves. Like trees we grow — this is hard to understand, as is all of life — not in one place only but everywhere, not in one direction but equally upward and outward and inward and downward; our energy is at work simultaneously in the trunk, branches, and roots; we are no longer free to do only one particular thing, to be only one particular thing. This is our fate, as I have said; we grow in height; and even if this should be our fatality — for we dwell ever closer to the lightning — well, we do not on that account honor it less; it remains that which we do not wish to share, to make public — the fatality of the heights, our fatality.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Ethics, Growth
“Consciousness is the last and latest development of the organic and hence also what is most unfinished and unstrong.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Consciousness, Evolution, Next Steps, Push, Unfinished Mind
“I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
Tagged: Beyond, Death of God, Grammar, Against Structure
“To see differently, the desire to see differently for once in this way is no small discipline of the intellect and a preparation for its eventual 'objectivity'— this latter understood not as 'disinterested contemplation' (which is a non-concept and a nonsense), but as the capacity to have all the arguments for and against at one's disposal and to suspend or implement them at will: so that one can exploit that very diversity of perspectives and affective interpretations in the interests of knowledge.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic
Tagged: Perspectivism, Seeing Seeing
“Perspectival seeing is the only kind of seeing there is, perspectival 'knowing' the only kind of 'knowing'; and the more feelings about a matter which we allow to come to expression, the more eyes, different eyes through which we are able to view this same matter, the more complete our 'conception' of it, our 'objectivity', will be.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic
Tagged: Diversity, Diversity Generators, Eyes, Objectivity, Perspectivism
“Formula of my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
Tagged: Focus Mantras, Teleology, Work Strategies, Aphorisms
“Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Into The Void, Superficial, Theology
“Woe, when you feel homesick for the land as if it had offered more freedom—and there is no longer any 'land.'”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Freedom, Groundless Ground, Homesick, To The Ocean
“To find everything profound—that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Eye, Profound Seeing, Seeing the Profound, Thought Catalog, Create Difference
“Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Clarity, Defining Quality, Obscurity, Timid, How To Write, Writing Strategies
“He is utterly without envy, but there is no merit in that, for he wants to conquer a country that nobody has possessed and scarcely anyone has even seen.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Envy, Paths Unknown
“What good is a book that does not even carry us beyond all books?”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Beyond Books, Books, Childrens Books, Medium = Message
“One day, and probably soon, we need some recognition of what above all is lacking in our big cities: quiet and wide, expansive places for reflection. Places with long, high-ceilinged cloisters for bad or all too sunny weather where no shouting or noise of carriages can reach and where good manners would prohibit even priests from praying aloud— buildings and sites that would altogether give expression to the sublimity of thoughtfulness and of stepping aside. We wish to see ourselves translated into stone and plants, we want to take walks in ourselves when we stroll around these buildings and gardens.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Architecture, Clearing Farm, Space Design, Designing Quiet
“Now something that you formerly loved as a truth or probability strikes you as an error; you shed it and fancy that this represents a victory for your reason. But perhaps this error was as necessary for you then, when you were still a different person —you are always a different person —as are all your present 'truths,' being a skin, as it were, that concealed and covered a great deal that you were not yet permitted to see. What killed that opinion for you was your new life and not your reason: you no longer need it, and now it collapses and unreason crawls out of it into the light like a worm. When we criticize something , this is no arbitrary and impersonal event; it is, at least very often, evidence of vital energies in us that are growing and shedding a skin. We negate and must negate because something in us wants to live and affirm— something that we perhaps do not know or see as yet.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Criticism, Identity, Truth Shedding, Changes
“Really, why should we be forced to assume that there is an essential difference between 'true' and 'false' in the first place? Isn't it enough to assume that there are degrees of apparency and, so to speak, lighter and darker shadows and hues of appearance—different valeurs to use the language of painters?”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Tagged: Art, Complexity, Liberal Arts, Marginalization, Objectivity, Painting, Truth
“Whatever forces us to assume that there is an essential difference between 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume different levels of semblance, lighter and darker shadows and tones of semblance — different values in the painter's sense of the term?”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Tagged: Objectivity, Truth, Logic Against Logic, Scientific Perspectivism
“The new philosopher can arise only in conjunction with a ruling caste, as its highest spiritualization. Great politics, rule over the earth, are at hand.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: Great Politics, Theory and Practice, Theory And Praxis
“To redeem the past and to transform every 'It was' into an 'I wanted it thus!' – that alone do I call redemption!”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Tagged: History, Philosophy, Philosophy of History, Redemption
“A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! A doctrine is needed powerful enough to work as a breeding agent: strengthening the strong, paralyzing and destructive for the world-weary. The annihilation of the decaying races... Dominion over the earth as a means of producing the higher type. ”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: Elitism, Evil, War
“The aim is lacking; 'why?' finds no answer.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: Groundless Ground, Nihilism, Teleology
“Here is a little ideal I stumble upon once every five weeks on a wild and lonely walk, in an azure moment of sinful happiness. To spend one’s life amid delicate and absurd things; a stranger to reality; half an artist, half a bird and metaphysician; with no care for reality.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: My Idea Of A Vacation, Azure
“Christianity is still possible at any time. It is not tied to any dogma. It requires neither the doctrine of a personal God, nor that of sin, nor that of immortality, nor that of redemption, nor that of faith. Christianity is a way of life, not a system of beliefs. It tell us how to act, not what we ought to believe. Whoever says today: “I will not be a soldier,” “I care nothing for the courts,” “I shall not claim the services of the police,” “I will do nothing that may disturb the peace within me: and if I must suffer on that account, nothing will serve better to maintain my peace than suffering” — he would be a Christian. ”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: God Is Still Here (Not Dead), Secularized Theology, Secular Theology
“All ideals are dangerous: because they debase and brand the actual; all are poisons, but indispensable as temporary cures.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: Idealism, Ambition Is Poison, The Power of Now
“My purpose: to demonstrate the absolute oppressiveness of all events and the application of moral distinctions as conditioned by perspective; to demonstrate how everything praised as moral is identical in essence with everything immoral and was made possible, as in every development of morality, with immoral means and for immoral ends; how, on the other hand, everything decried as immoral is, economically considered, higher and more essential, and how a development toward a greater fullness of life necessarily also demands the advance of immorality. 'Truth' the extent to which we permit ourselves to understand this fact.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: Perspectivism, Part and Parcel, Logic Against Logic
“It is mythology to think that forces obey laws.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: The Biggest Picture, God Lives
“1. Do you want to be more multifarious or simpler? 

2. Do you want to become happier or more indifferent to happiness and unhappiness? 

3. Do you want to become more contented with oneself or more exacting and inexorable? 

4. Do you want to become softer, more yielding, more human, or more inhuman? 

5. Do you want to become more prudent or more ruthless?

6. Do you want to reach a goal or to do you want avoid all goals? Are you keen enough to see a boundary, a prison, a stupidity in every goal? 

7. Do you wants to become more respected or more feared? Or more despised? 

8. Do you want to become a tyrant or a seducer or a shepherd or a herd animal?”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
“I wish men would begin by respecting themselves: everything else follows from that.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: The Power of Ego, Thought Catalog or Nietzsche?, Your Value
“Philosophy, as I have understood and lived it, is a voluntary living in ice and high mountains: a seeking after everything strange and questionable in existence, all that has been excommunicated by morality.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I am So Wise (Penguin Great Ideas)
Tagged: No Ethics, Philosophy, Think Different, Screw Ethics