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The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure
but now it draws me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What could destroy us more quickly than working, thinking, and feeling without any inner necessity, without any deeply personal choice, without pleasure - as an automaton of "duty"? This is the very recipe for decadence, even for idiocy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus spoke the devil to me once: "God too has his hell: it is his love of man." ... And most recently I heard him speak this word: "God is dead: God died of his pity for man." - On the Pitying -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What the father kept silent the son speaks out. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If you would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [ ... ] Without cruelty there is no festival. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In music the passions enjoy themselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet
stand also on your heads! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Just as soon as we notice that someone has to force himself to pay attention when dealing and talking with us, we have a valid demonstration that he does not love us or that he does not love us anymore. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One knows a little too much about everybody. And we can even see through some men, and yet we can by no means pass through them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Plato was a bore. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Unrighteousness. Ah! how ineptly cometh the word "virtue" out of their mouth! And when they say: "I am just," it always soundeth like: "I am just - revenged! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
And others are proud of their modicum of righteousness, and for the sake of it do violence to all things: so that the world is drowned in their unrighteousness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In Solitude, the lonely man is eaten by himself.
Among crowds, by the Many.
Choose which you Prefer. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Germans love frankness and honesty. It is so convenient to be frank and honest. This confidingness, this complacence, this showing the cards of German honesty, is probably the most dangerous and most successful disguise which the German is up to nowadays. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
From people who merely pray we must become people who bless. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
That which does not destroy, strengthens. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One no longer becometh poor or rich; both are too burdensome. Who still wanteth to rule? Who still wanteth to obey? Both are too burdensome. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One should only question gods where none but gods can reply. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I love him who scatters golden words in advance of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.
Those whom I deemed
Changed to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,
Have aged and lost our old affinity:
One has to change to stay akin to me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who humbles himself wants to be exalted. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
From the practice of wise men. - To become wise, one must wish to have certain experiences and run, as it were, into their gaping jaws. This, of course, is very dangerous; many a wise guy has been swallowed. 301 -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The ascetic ideal has an aim - this goal is, putting it generally, that all the other interests of human life should, measured by its standard, appear petty and narrow; it explains epochs, nations, men, in reference to this one end; it forbids any other interpretation, any other end; it -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If the morality of "thou shalt not lie" is rejected, the "sense for truth" will have to legitimize itself before another tribunal: - as a means of the preservation of man, as will to power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I no longer want to walk on worn soles. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love forgives the lover even his lust. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It was only Christianity, with resentment against life in its foundations, which made sexuality something impure: it threw filth on the beginning, on the prerequisite of our life -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I started to investigate and unearth an old faith which for thousands of years we philosophers used to build on as the safest of all foundations - which we built on again and again although every previous structure fell in: I began to undermine our faith in morals . But ye do not understand me? - -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time in the form of legislation and customs. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people for each other gives way to a new desire and greed, a shared higher thirst for an ideal above them.
But who knows such love? who has experienced it?
Its true name is friendship -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Slow is the experience of all deep fountains: long have they to wait until they know what has fallen into their depths. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right
especially when one is right. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing stands so much in the way of the production and propagation of the great philosopher by nature as does the bad philosopher who works for the state. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
With hard men intimacy is a thing of shame- and something precious. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly," then they need to search. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Behold the good and just! Whom do they hate most? The man who breaks their tables of values, the breaker, the lawbreaker:- yet he is the creator. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Accordingly, I do not believe that an "impulse to knowledge" is the father of philosophy; but that another impulse, here as elsewhere, has only made use of knowledge (and mistaken knowledge!) as an instrument. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We can destroy only as creators -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In order that there may be institutions, there must be a kind of will, instinct, or imperative, which is anti-liberal to the point of malice: the will to tradition, to authority, to responsibility for centuries to come, to the solidarity of chains of generations, forward and backward ad infinitum. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love
To lose myself for a while ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people
but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
138. We do the same when awake as when dreaming: we only invent and imagine him with whom we have intercourse - and forget it immediately. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We think we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers, yet we possess only metaphors of the things, which in no way correspond to the original essences. Just -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The real question is: How much truth can I stand? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A Spendthrift.-He has not yet the poverty of the rich man who has counted all his treasure,-he squanders his spirit with the irrationalness of the spendthrift Nature. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Somebody said: About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Remorse.
Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I am not angry with anybody. But when I am alone it seems to me that I can see my friends in a clearer and rosier light than when I am with them; and when I loved and felt music best I lived far from it. It would seem that I must have distant perspectives in order that I may think well of things. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The fleetest beast to bear you to perfection is suffering. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There are days when I am haunted by a feeling that is blacker than the blackest melancholy. I have a contempt for humanity. I despise the people I have been fated to call my contemporaries. I feel suffocated by their filthy breath. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The greatest accomplishment of past mankind is that we
no longer have to live in continual fear of wild animals, of
barbarians, of gods and of our own dreams. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!
And he who laughs best today will also laugh last. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Giving style to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single point, like a goddess of victory, without fear or giddiness, will never know what happiness is; and, worse still, will never do anything that makes others happy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who cannot find the way to HIS ideal, lives more frivolously and shamelessly than the man without an ideal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Not through enmity does enmity come to an end; enmity comes to an end through friendship. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Forgetfulness is a property of all action. The man of action is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to do one, he is unjust to what is behind him, and only recognizes one law - the law of that which is to be. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and the buzzing of the poison-flies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who hears only a "Will to Truth" in the background, and nothing else, cannot certainly boast of the sharpest ears. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success). -- Friedrich Nietzsche
And how does one basically recognize good development? In that a well-developed man does our senses good: that he is carved from wood which is hard, delicate, and sweet-smelling, all at the same time. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We work only with things that don't exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, units of time, units of space - how is explanation even possible if we begin by making everything into an image, our image! It -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Our age knows better ... What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent - it is indecent to be a Christian today. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
You utlilitarians, you too love everything useful only as avehicle of your inclinations - you too really find the noise of its wheels intolerable? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.
The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Antichrist, Section 7 -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Modern marriage has lost its meaning
consequently it is being abolished. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love. There -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Qualities.-Our strong points sometimes drive us so far forward that we cannot any longer endure our weaknesses, and we perish by them: we also perhaps see this result beforehand, but nevertheless do not want it to be otherwise. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.' -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In the end things must be as they are and have always been
the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Zarathustra saw many lands and many peoples: thus he discovered the good and evil of many peoples. No greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
And now we celebrate, in victory bound,
The feast of feasts:
Friend Zarathustra came, the guest of guests!
Now laughs the world, the ancient curtain's torn,
And light and darkness wedded are as one ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Man will desire oblivion rather than not desire at all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One has renounced the great life when one renounces war. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
That which now calls itself democracy differs from older forms of government solely in that it drives with new horses: the streets are still the same old streets, and the wheels are likewise the same old wheels. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To some people you may give not your hand, but only a slap with a paw: and I would at your paw might also have claws. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One pays dearly for any kind of mastery on earth, where perhaps one pays too dearly for everything; one is master of one's trade at the price of also being its victim. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies
and thus become silent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Let your virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if you must speak of it, then do not be ashamed to stammer about it. Then speak and stammer: "This is my good, I love this, thus I like it entirely, thus alone do I want the good. I -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings
always darker, emptier and simpler. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not belong to those who only get their thoughts from books, or at the prompting of books,-it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The surest way to corrupt a youth? Teach him to value thinking alike more than thinking differently. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
the mob is the most ruthless of tyrants; -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I pass through this people and keep mine eyes open: they do not forgive me for do not envying their virtues. They bite at me, because I say unto them that for small people, small virtues are necessary - and because it is hard for me to understand that small people are necessary! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not their love for men, rather it is the impotence of their love that hinders Christians of today from burning us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Ah, my friend, I sometimes think that I lead a highly dangerous life since I'm one of those machines that can burst apart. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is the most bungled of all the animals, the sickliest, and not one has strayed more dangerously from its instincts. But for all that, of course, he is the most interesting. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move.
Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
But one day solitude will make you weary, one day your pride will buckle and your courage gnash its teeth. One day you will cry, 'I am alone! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The greatest giver of alms is cowardice. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The earth', he said, 'has a skin; and this skin has diseases. One of these diseases is called, for example, "humanity". -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Dare only to believe in yourselves- in yourselves and in your inward parts! He who does not believe in himself always lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Behold, I am weary of my wisdom,
like a bee that has gathered too much honey;
I need hands outstretched to receive it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Even now it is ceasing to be art of the nobleman, and it is quite possible that some day one may find it so common and even vulgar that, along with all party literature and journalism, one would classify it as prostitution of the spirit. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
thinker sees in his own actions attempts and questionings to obtain information about something or other; success and failure are answers to him first and foremost. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretation of his life and struggles. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is to be hoped, indeed, that LANGUAGE, here as elsewhere, will not get over its awkwardness, and that it will continue to talk of opposites where there are only degrees and many refinements of gradation -- Friedrich Nietzsche
With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The people told me, however, that the big ear was not only a man, but a great man, a genius. But I never believed in the people when they spake of great men - and I hold to my belief that it was a reversed cripple, who had too little of everything, and too much of one thing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
But there is no such substratum; there is no "being" behind doing, effecting, becoming; "the doer" is merely a fiction added to the deed-the deed is everything. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the great stimulus to life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I have thought of you much, and have shared with you in thought much that has been elevating, stirring, and gay, so much so that it has been like living with my dear friends. If only you know how novel and strange that seems to an old hermit like me? How often it has made me laugh at myself! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Intoxicating joy it is for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, the world once seemed to me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart
and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate
they only reply, and purr in doing so. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What is love but understanding and rejoicing that another lives, works, and feels in a different and opposite way to ourselves? That love may be able to bridge over the contrasts by joys, we must not remove or deny those contrasts. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The maturity of man - that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
For the male sickness of self-contempt, the surest cure is to be loved by a clever woman -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved -- Friedrich Nietzsche
He that feeds the hungry refreshes his own soul, says wisdom. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage- it is called Self; it dwells in your body, it is your body. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Remain true to the earth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Why?" said Zarathustra. "Thou askest why? I do not belong to those who may be asked after their Why. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
By saying 'God sees into the heart' it denies the deepest and the highest desires of life and takes God for the enemy of life. The saint in whom God takes pleasure is the ideal castrate. Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If spouses did not live together, good marriages would be more frequent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery hath hitherto saved the victims. "What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?
Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so tender! We are all of us pretty fine asses and asseses of burden! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When he was young, that God out of the Orient, then was he harsh and
revengeful, and built himself a hell for the delight of his favourites.
At last, however, he became old and soft and mellow and pitiful, more
like a grandfather than a father, but most like a tottering old grandmother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to love nothing, to understand everything
makes one gentle and pliable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
How couldst thou become new if thou have not first become ashes! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it in the words of an ancient mystery: adventavit asinus, / pulcher et fortissimus. (Translation: The ass arrives, beautiful and most brave.) -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light
what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What the father has hidden comes out in the son, and often have I found the son to be a father's revealed secret. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus do the gods justify the life of man: they themselves live it
the only satisfactory theodicy! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In disrespecting, we show that we still mantain a sense of respect. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose
and then to find
ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Honor to the government, and obedience, and also to the crooked government! So desires good sleep. How can I help it, if power likes to walk on crooked legs? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is mightier than knowledge, for it wants life, and knowledge attains as its ultimate end only - annihilation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Broad daylight; breakfast; return of cheerfulness and bons sens; Plato blushes for shame; all free spirits run riot.) -- Friedrich Nietzsche
But I need solitude
which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Only when he has attained a final knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are only the boundaries of man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
But I am still far from them, and my sense does not speak to their sense. To men I am something between a fool and a corpse. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers the world. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Better know nothing than half-know many things. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
And just look at these men: their eye saith it - they know nothing better on earth than to be with a woman.
Filth is at the bottom of their souls; and alas! If their filth hath spirit in it! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the same with mathematics, which would certainly not have arisen if it had been known from the beginning that in Nature there are no exactly straight lines, no real circle, no absolute standard of size. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous". -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Art raises its head where creeds relax. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
All that the world needs most today, is combined in the most deductive manner in his art; the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality, and innocence (idiocy). -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman
a rope over an abyss. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In woman's love there is injustice and blindness to all she does not love. And even in woman's conscious love, there is still always attack and lightning and night, along with the light. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
God is a conjecture: but I do not wish your conjecturing to reach beyond your creating will. Could ye CREATE a God? - Then, I pray you, be silent about all Gods! But ye could well create the Superman. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not only he who speaks contrary to what he knows who lies, but even more he who speaks contrary to what he does not know -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Way to equality. - A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creatures. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity - and liberty is added eventually by sleep. 297 -- Friedrich Nietzsche
They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone
by teasing, for example. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no beast without cruelty -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To chew and digest everything, however - that is the
genuine swine-nature! Ever to say ye-a - that hath only
the ass learnt, and those like it! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What is the greatest thing you can experience? It is the hour of your greatest contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becomes loathsome to you, and so also your reason and virtue. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One who has a why can endure anyhow. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
He has heart who knows fear, but vanquishes it; who sees the abyss, but with pride.
He who sees the abyss, but with eagle's eyes,- he who with eagle's talons grasps the abyss: he has courage. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I should not believe in a God who does not dance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
And if a friend does you wrong, then say: I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however
how could I forgive that! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We sleepwalkers of the day! We artists! We who conceal naturalness! We who are moon- and God-struck! We untiring wanderers, silent as death, on heights that we see not as heights but as our plains, as our safety. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
But the petty thought is like a fungus: it crawls and cringes and wants to be nowhere - until the whole body is rotten and withered with little fungi. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Populace above, populace below! What are "poor" and "rich" ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It seems that in order to inscribe themselves upon the heart of humanity with everlasting claims, all great things have first to wander about the earth as enormous and awe-inspiring caricatures: -- Friedrich Nietzsche
For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade, as toward a catastrophe: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth ... I am no man, I am dynamite! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Books for general reading always smell badly. The odor of common people hangs about them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate-and immediately forget we have done so. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.' -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe me, friend Hellishnoise: the greatest events - they are not our loudest but our stillest hours. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
But let me reveal my heart to you entirely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god! Hence there are no gods. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Yes, I recognize Zarathustra. His eyes are clear now, no longer does he sneer with loathing. Just see how he dances along! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The doer alone learneth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The world itself is a filthy monster. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished
it is no longer secure in its instincts. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The lie of the ideal has till now been the curse on reality; on its account humanity itself has become fake and false right down to its deepest instincts - to the point of worshipping values opposite to the only ones which would guarantee it a flourishing, a future, the exaled right to a future. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is a dark chain of events. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The present-day Prussian is one of the most dangerous enemies of culture -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A married philosopher belongs to comedy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If I wished to shake this tree with my hands, I should not be able to do so.
But the wind, which we do not see, troubles and bends it as it lists. We are worst bent and troubled by invisible hands. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The true world
we have abolished. What world has remained? The apparent one perhaps? But no! With the true world we have also abolished the apparent one. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Almost two thousand years, and no new god! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Only Individuals have a sense of Responsibility -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We must now and then be joyful in our folly, that we may continue to be joyful in our wisdom! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Heroism
that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Thou great star! what would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author
and that he did not learn it better. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Reality is a flux, an endless becoming that is beyond words and language - all language is metaphor, useful to us but ultimately detached from reality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying
that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy -- Friedrich Nietzsche
That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the good war that hallows every cause. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power
assuming that life itself is the will to power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153 -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the crime par excellence against life
is the real sin against the holy spirit of life -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What matters is not eternal life, but eternal vivacity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The sage as astronomer. - As long as you still feel the stars as something 'above you', you have not yet acquired the gaze of a man of deep understanding. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Hunger attacks me," said Zarathustra, "like a robber. Among forests and swamps my hunger attacks me, and late in the night. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What is the sign of every literary decadence? That life no longer dwells in the whole. The word becomes sovereign and leaps out of the sentence, the sentence reaches out and obscures the meaning of the page, the page gains life at the expense of the whole - the whole is no longer a whole. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.' -- Friedrich Nietzsche
This is Europe's true predicament: together with the fear of man we have also lost the love of man, reverence for man, confidence in man, indeed the will to man. Now the sight of man makes us weary. What is nihilism today if not that? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,
if there were not a friend?
The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds in which high spirits play no part. Only excess of strength is proof of strength. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Stay not where the lowlands are! Climb not into the sky! The world looks best by far when viewed from halfway high. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking
humanity itself? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa
blessing it rather than in love with it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover
what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Resigned that those surrounding him had no idea who he was, and invariably kind to his social and intellectual inferiors, he sometimes felt doubly hurt that those who ought to have understood him really had less respect for him than his most casual acquaintances. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One hears but one does not seek; one takes
one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One person is always too many around me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy prey - and that is what every sufferer is - is for them an enchanting thing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task ... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What, seen in the perspective of life, is the significance of morality? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerable many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional exception. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind?
They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The worst mutilation of man that can be imagined presented as the "good man". -- Friedrich Nietzsche
But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere
until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection ... Thus spoke Zarathustra. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Precisely the least thing, the gentlest, lightest, the rustling of a lizard, a breath, a moment, a twinkling of the eye - little makes up the quality of the best happiness. Soft! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The hybrid European - a tolerably ugly plebeian, taken all in all - absolutely requires a costume: -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The parasites live where the great have little secret sores. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In the heroic effort of the individual to attain universality, in the attempt to transcend the curse of individuation and to become the one world-being, he suffers in his own person the primordial contradiction that is concealed in things, which means that he commits sacrilege and suffers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
All truths are bloody truths to me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills. -- Friedrich Nietzsche