Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
10 quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche (died 1900), taken from 3 works. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Works quoted: Thus Spake Zarathustra, The Joyful Wisdom and Beyond Good and Evil.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
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“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.”
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“Better, however, to be foolish with happiness than foolish with misfortune, better to dance awkwardly than walk lamely.”
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“And lost be the day to us in which a measure hath not been danced. And false be every truth which hath not had laughter along with it!”
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“It is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love. There is always some madness in love. But there is always, also, some method in madness.”
The Joyful Wisdom
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“I want more and more to perceive the necessary characters in things as the beautiful:—I shall thus be one of those who beautify things.”
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“Indeed, from the bottom of my soul I am gratefully disposed to all my misery and sickness, and to whatever is imperfect in me, because such things leave me a hundred back-doors through which I can escape from permanent habits.”
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“I mean to say that the world is overfull of beautiful things, but it is nevertheless poor, very poor, in beautiful moments, and in the unveiling of those beautiful things.”
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“All great noise causes one to place happiness in the calm and the distance.”
Beyond Good and Evil
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“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”
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“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.”