Friedrich Nietzsche

25 posts

Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche

I distrust the herd, admire strength, and prefer thinkers with a spine.

Friedrich Nietzsche
·1874·Basel

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche
·1882·Genoa

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Friedrich Nietzsche
·1882·Genoa

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit to think outdoors — walking, leaping, climbing, dancing.

Georges Méliès — A Trip to the Moon
14:33
Film · Star Film Company

A Trip to the Moon

Georges Méliès

1902

Friedrich Nietzsche

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To make ourselves, to shape a form from various elements — that is the task! The task of a sculptor! Of a productive human being!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Against that positivism which stops before phenomena, saying "there are only facts," I should say: no, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations...

Friedrich Nietzsche
·1882·Genoa, Italy

For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is — to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge!

Friedrich Nietzsche

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, but love it.

Neil Armstrong — One Small Step
0:38
Film · NASA

One Small Step

Neil Armstrong

July 20, 1969