Top quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. Votes: 30

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. Votes: 26

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? Votes: 24

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. Votes: 24

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. Votes: 22

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. Votes: 19

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. Votes: 14

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. Votes: 14

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. Votes: 13

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. Votes: 13

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. Votes: 12

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. Votes: 10

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion. Votes: 10

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. Votes: 10

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. Votes: 10

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.' Votes: 9

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. Votes: 9

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. Votes: 9

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. Votes: 8

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. Votes: 7

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. Votes: 6

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. Votes: 5

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. Votes: 5

We have art in order not to die of the truth. Votes: 5

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. Votes: 5

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie? Votes: 4

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. Votes: 4

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. Votes: 4

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. Votes: 4

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. Votes: 1

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick. Votes: 0

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. Votes: 0

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't. Votes: 0

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. Votes: 0

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. Votes: 0

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Votes: 0

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. Votes: 0

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. Votes: 0

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. Votes: 0

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities. Votes: 0

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. Votes: 0

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant. Votes: 0

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. Votes: 0

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. Votes: 0

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art. Votes: 0

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. Votes: 0

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. Votes: 0

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god? Votes: 0

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Votes: 0

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. Votes: 0

Faith: not wanting to know what is true. Votes: 0

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. Votes: 0

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. Votes: 0

Without music, life would be a mistake. Votes: 0

In music the passions enjoy themselves. Votes: 0

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. Votes: 0

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. Votes: 0

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. Votes: 0

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. Votes: 0

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. Votes: 0

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? Votes: 0

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. Votes: 0

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders? Votes: 0

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing. Votes: 0

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. Votes: 0

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god. Votes: 0

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. Votes: 0

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. Votes: 0

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself. Votes: 0

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. Votes: 0

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. Votes: 0

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. Votes: 0

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. Votes: 0

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. Votes: 0

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. Votes: 0

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. Votes: 0

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. Votes: 0

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one. Votes: 0

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers. Votes: 0

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. Votes: 0

When one has not had a good father, one must create one. Votes: 0

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy. Votes: 0

Equality before the enemy -that is the main condition to fight a fair duel. Where you have contempt, you cannot wage war; where you are in command, where you can see someone beneath you, you should not wage war. Votes: 0

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter. Votes: 0

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders. Votes: 0

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. Votes: 0

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. Votes: 0

This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously. Votes: 0

The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the cross. Votes: 0

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. Votes: 0

One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away! Votes: 0

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen. Votes: 0

Anarchists are mouthpieces of a declining stratum of society; when they work themselves into a state of righteous indignation demanding 'rights', 'justice', 'equal rights', they are just acting under the pressure of their own lack of culture, which has no way of grasping why they really suffer, or what they lack in life. Votes: 0

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Morality negates life." Votes: 0

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments." Votes: 0

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards." Votes: 0

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!" Votes: 0

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love." Votes: 0

Je ne sais ni entrer ni sortir .. je suis tout ce qui ne sait ni entrer ni sortir ." Votes: 0

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs. Votes: 0

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. Votes: 0

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. Votes: 0

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. Votes: 0

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us. Votes: 0

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power. Votes: 0

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. Votes: 0

Love is more afraid of change than destruction. Votes: 0

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life. Votes: 0

I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that. Votes: 0

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things. Votes: 0

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate. Votes: 0

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity. Votes: 0

Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself. Votes: 0

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin. Votes: 0

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity. Votes: 0

The Antichrist, Section 7 Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers! Votes: 0

Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153 Votes: 0

A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne. Votes: 0

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. Votes: 0

Art is the proper task of life. Votes: 0

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. Votes: 0

However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected. Votes: 0

The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power. Votes: 0

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct. Votes: 0

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. Votes: 0

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. Votes: 0

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night. Votes: 0

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night. Votes: 0

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation. Votes: 0

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Votes: 0

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error. Votes: 0

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live. Votes: 0

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too. Votes: 0

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Votes: 0

He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Votes: 0

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession. Votes: 0

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war. Votes: 0

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them. Votes: 0

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal. Votes: 0

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. Votes: 0

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. Votes: 0

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women! Votes: 0

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship. Votes: 0

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Votes: 0

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. Votes: 0

For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds. Votes: 0

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil. Votes: 0

That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors. Votes: 0

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us. Votes: 0

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit! Votes: 0

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood. Votes: 0

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. Votes: 0

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? Votes: 0

Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs. Votes: 0

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. Votes: 0

Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out? Votes: 0

Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be. Votes: 0

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health... Votes: 0

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one. Votes: 0

The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility. Votes: 0

The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk. Votes: 0

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Certitude drives people mad. Votes: 0

It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad. Votes: 0

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. Votes: 0

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.... Votes: 0

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. Votes: 0

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play. Votes: 0

The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation. Votes: 0

Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness. Votes: 0

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman. Votes: 0

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one. Votes: 0

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. Votes: 0

Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage. Votes: 0

Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton. Votes: 0

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. Votes: 0

I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled. Votes: 0

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises. Votes: 0

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved. Votes: 0

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. Votes: 0

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?. Votes: 0

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks! Votes: 0

I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think! Votes: 0

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Votes: 0

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. Votes: 0

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power. Votes: 0

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. Votes: 0

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven. Votes: 0

This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil! Votes: 0

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness. Votes: 0

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 the pen? Votes: 0

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops. Votes: 0

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. Votes: 0

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself. Votes: 0

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. Votes: 0

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.' Votes: 0

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. Votes: 0

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. Votes: 0

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man. Votes: 0

In the dark, time feels different than when it is light. Votes: 0

There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes! Votes: 0

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate. Votes: 0

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration. Votes: 0

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind? Votes: 0

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain. Votes: 0

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. Votes: 0

Though the favourites of the Gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of Gods Votes: 0

Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has. Votes: 0

The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction Votes: 0

Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power. Votes: 0

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end. Votes: 0

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge. Votes: 0

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today? Votes: 0

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation. Votes: 0

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity. Votes: 0

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. Votes: 0

Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The doer alone learneth. Votes: 0

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves. Votes: 0

People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake. Votes: 0

The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep. Votes: 0

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up. Votes: 0

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Votes: 0

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. Votes: 0

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul. Votes: 0

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end. Votes: 0

That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity. Votes: 0

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously. Votes: 0

No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men. Votes: 0

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another. Votes: 0

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. Votes: 0

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance. Votes: 0

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony. Votes: 0

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony. Votes: 0

In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence. Votes: 0

There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear".. Votes: 0

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. Votes: 0

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation. Votes: 0

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion. Votes: 0

Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity. Votes: 0

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. Votes: 0

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. Votes: 0

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. Votes: 0

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters. Votes: 0

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any. Votes: 0

The strongest have their moments of fatigue. Votes: 0

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being. Votes: 0

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long. Votes: 0

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away. Votes: 0

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss. Votes: 0

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity. Votes: 0

We are franker towards others than towards ourselves. Votes: 0

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. Votes: 0

The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity. Votes: 0

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path. Votes: 0

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Votes: 0

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. Votes: 0

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. Votes: 0

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers. Votes: 0

Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers. Votes: 0

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father. Votes: 0

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil. Votes: 0

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. Votes: 0

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. Votes: 0

One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep. Votes: 0

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. Votes: 0

It is the good war that hallows every cause. Votes: 0

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause. Votes: 0

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion Votes: 0

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. Votes: 0

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.--- Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Success has always been a great liar. Votes: 0

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir. Votes: 0

Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods). Votes: 0

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers. Votes: 0

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth. Votes: 0

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. Votes: 0

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it. Votes: 0

I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh. Votes: 0

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues. Votes: 0

...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it. Votes: 0

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths. Votes: 0

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction. Votes: 0

If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed. Votes: 0

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish. Votes: 0

If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish. Votes: 0

I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you. Votes: 0

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves. Votes: 0

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love. Votes: 0

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons. Votes: 0

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises. Votes: 0

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it. Votes: 0

The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out. Votes: 0

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence. Votes: 0

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell. Votes: 0

Battle not with Hello Kitty lest ye become Hello Kitty; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you with huge eyes and a helpless disposition. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. Votes: 0

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope. Votes: 0

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes. Votes: 0

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. Votes: 0

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel. Votes: 0

All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost. Votes: 0

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value. Votes: 0

Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'. Votes: 0

Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up. Votes: 0

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most. Votes: 0

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place. Votes: 0

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame. Votes: 0

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago. Votes: 0

Human, all too human. Votes: 0

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. Votes: 0

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost. Votes: 0

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself? Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company. Votes: 0

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal. Votes: 0

The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful. Votes: 0

Idleness is the parent of psychology. Votes: 0

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed. Votes: 0

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. Votes: 0

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral. Votes: 0

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. Votes: 0

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. Votes: 0

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped? Votes: 0

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. Votes: 0

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. Votes: 0

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. Votes: 0

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results. Votes: 0

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. Votes: 0

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. Votes: 0

Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure. Votes: 0

The future influences the present just as much as the past. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile. Votes: 0

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment. Votes: 0

There are no facts, only interpretations. Votes: 0

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. Votes: 0

Invisible threads are the strongest ties. Votes: 0

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. Votes: 0

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow. Votes: 0

Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability. Votes: 0

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended. Votes: 0

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species. Votes: 0

The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type. Votes: 0

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine. Votes: 0

Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness. Votes: 0

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice. Votes: 0

One has to know the size of one's stomach. Votes: 0

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge. Votes: 0

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity. Votes: 0

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally. Votes: 0

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance. Votes: 0

What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers! Votes: 0

[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils. Votes: 0

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go. Votes: 0

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive. Votes: 0

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. Votes: 0

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle. Votes: 0

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. Votes: 0

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage. Votes: 0

But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all? Votes: 0

A vocation is the backbone of life. Votes: 0

Yes, life is a woman! Votes: 0

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal"). Votes: 0

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! Votes: 0

A life without music is an error. Votes: 0

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music. Votes: 0

Life without music is no life at all. Votes: 0

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom." Votes: 0

I love those who do not know how to live for today. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. Votes: 0

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many. Votes: 0

We do not belong to those who only get their thought 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. Votes: 0

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs Votes: 0

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. Votes: 0

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. Votes: 0

Love forgives the lover even his lust. Votes: 0

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you. Votes: 0

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman? Votes: 0

There is always some madness in love. Votes: 0

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality. Votes: 0

What does not kill you makes you stronger. Votes: 0

What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger Votes: 0

Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil. Votes: 0

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre. Votes: 0

THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly. Votes: 0

The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being. Votes: 0

Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience. Votes: 0

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. Votes: 0

In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men. Votes: 0

One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed. Votes: 0

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. Votes: 0

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages. Votes: 0

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness. Votes: 0

In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light. Votes: 0

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies Votes: 0

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs Votes: 0

Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance. Votes: 0

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake. Votes: 0

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life. Votes: 0

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally! Votes: 0

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves. Votes: 0

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me. Votes: 0

A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all. Votes: 0

You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty. Votes: 0

These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far. Votes: 0

From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it. Votes: 0

What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October... Votes: 0

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it. Votes: 0

I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself. Votes: 0

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger. Votes: 0

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down. Votes: 0

The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable. Votes: 0

On every parable you ride to every truth. Votes: 0

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. Votes: 0

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall. Votes: 0

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. Votes: 0

The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason. Votes: 0

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices. Votes: 0

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree. Votes: 0

To the mean all becomes mean. Votes: 0

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good. Votes: 0

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. Votes: 0

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics. Votes: 0

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity. Votes: 0

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality. Votes: 0

Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones. Votes: 0

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses. Votes: 0

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets. Votes: 0

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force! Votes: 0

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. Votes: 0

As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power. Votes: 0

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable. Votes: 0

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness. Votes: 0

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar. Votes: 0

...at the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory... Votes: 0

The pure soul is a pure lie. Votes: 0

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? Votes: 0

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires. Votes: 0

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. Votes: 0

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering Votes: 0

Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes. Votes: 0

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality. Votes: 0

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious. Votes: 0

Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence. Votes: 0

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal. Votes: 0

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again! Votes: 0

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again! Votes: 0

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering. Votes: 0

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing. Votes: 0

Art raises its head where creeds relax. Votes: 0

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. Votes: 0

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him. Votes: 0

There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God. Votes: 0

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. Votes: 0

That which does not destroy, strengthens. Votes: 0

If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will. Votes: 0

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man. Votes: 0

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful. Votes: 0

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal. Votes: 0

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth. Votes: 0

How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle. Votes: 0

Righteousness exalteth a nation. Votes: 0

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks. Votes: 0

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. Votes: 0

What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it? Votes: 0

When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship. Votes: 0

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! Votes: 0

Discontent is the seed of ethics Votes: 0

Each day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing Votes: 0

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands Votes: 0

What is it that I especially find utterly unendurable? That I cannot cope with, that makes me choke and faint? Bad air! Bad air! The approach of some ill-constituted thing; that I have to smell the entrails of some ill-constituted soul! Votes: 0

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial. Votes: 0

Men arbeidt nog, want arbeid is een vermaak. Maar men zorgt, dat het vermaak niet aangrijpt. Men wordt niet meer arm en rijk: beide zijn te bezwaarlijk. Wie wil nog regeren? Wie gehoorzamen? Beide zijn te bezwaarlijk. Geen herder en ene kudde! Ieder wil hetzelfde, ieder is gelijk: wie anders voelt, gaat vrijwillig in het gekkenhuis. Votes: 0

Somebody said: About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them. Votes: 0

Ein Buch, das man liebt, darf man nicht leihen, sondern muss es besitzen. Votes: 0

A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instincts a chance. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he may forget men who are the rule, as their exception;-- exclusive only of the case in which he is pushed straight to such men by a still stronger instinct, as a discerner in the great and exceptional sense. Votes: 0

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul. Votes: 0

Melalui musik, bahkan hasrat kita dapat meikmati dirinya sendiri Votes: 0

Dari semua yang tertulis, aku hanya mencintai apa yang ditulis seseorang dengan darahnya sendiri. --Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) Votes: 0

Untuk hidup sendirian, orang harus menjadi binatang atau dewa--kata Aristoteles. ada yang ketiga: orang harus menjadi keduanya, yaitu seorang filsuf Votes: 0

The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting. Votes: 0

Some men are born posthumously. Votes: 0

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame. Votes: 0

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame. Votes: 0

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity. Votes: 0

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse. Votes: 0

We ought to face our destiny with courage. Votes: 0

He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed. Votes: 0

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful! Votes: 0

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'. Votes: 0

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way. Votes: 0

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted. Votes: 0

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it. Votes: 0

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things. Votes: 0

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how. Votes: 0

perempuan dianggap dalam. kenapa? karena orang tidak akan menemukan dasar pada mereka. perempuan bahkan tidak dangkal Votes: 0

kalau diinjak cacing akan bergelung. ini cerdik. dengan demikian berkurangnya peluang diinjak lagi. dalam bahasa moral: tahu diri Votes: 0

hati terikat, jiwa bebas.--jika kau mengikat dan merantai hatimu kuatkuat, kau dapat memberikan banyak kebebasan pada jiwamu: itulah yang ku katakan pada suatu hari. akan tetapi orangorang tidak percaya, kecuali saat mereka benarbenar menemukannya Votes: 0

perempuan belajar membenci dengan cara yang sama saat mereka--belajar melupakan cara memperdaya Votes: 0

kegilaan adalah suatu yang langka dalam individu--tapi dalam kelompok, partai politik, negara, epos, ia adalah peraturan... Votes: 0

apa? kamu mencari? kamu ingin membanyakkan dirimu menjadi sepuluh, seratus kali? kamu mencari pengikut? carilah nol! Votes: 0

apa yang dilakukan demi cinta, selalu terjadi diluar kebaikan dan kejahatan Votes: 0

dalam keramahan tidak ada kebencian terhadap manusia--inilah mengapa begitu banyak hal yang menjijikkan Votes: 0

seseorang yag merasa dirinya ditakdirkan untuk megamati dan bukan meyakini akan menemukan bahwa semua penganut terlalu cerewet dan suka mendesak: dia akan menolak mereka Votes: 0

saat cinta ataupun kebencia tidak berperan, tindaka perempuan akan biasabiasa saja Votes: 0

aku telah melakukannya"--kata ingatanku."aku tidak mungkin telah melakukannya"--kata kesombonganku dan tetap tidak tergoyahkan. akhirnya--ingatanku menyerah Votes: 0

cinta mengungkapkan kualitaskualitas besar dan tersembunyi dari pencintanya--apa yang langka dan merupakan perkecualian dari dirinya: dalam artian bahwa cinta menyembunyikan apa yang biasabiasa saja Votes: 0

kepuasan diri melindungi orang bahkan dari terkena pilek. pernahkah seorang perempuan yang tahu bahwa ia berpakaian pantas terkena pilek? saya asumsikan dia hampir tidak berpakaian samasekali Votes: 0

Semua perempuan yang baik menemukan bahwa ilmu pengetahuan adalah bertentangan dengan kesopanan mereka. Ia membuat mereka merasa seakanakan ada orang yang ingin melihat dibalik kulit mereka--atau yang lebih parah! Dibalik pakaian dan kosmetik mereka... Votes: 0

dari sekolah militer kehidupan: apa yang tidak membunuhku membuatku kuat Votes: 0

sesuai dengan diri kita, kita semua purapura lebih sederhana dari yang sebenarnya: inilah cara dimana kita dapat bersantai dari orang lain Votes: 0

kesombongan kita paling tahan terhadap rasa sakit saat diri kita terluka Votes: 0

ketidaksukaan pada yang kotor dapat menjadi sedemikian besar sehingga hal itu akan mencegah kita membersihkan diri Votes: 0

apa gunanya bahwa saya terbukti benar? saya berada di sisi kebenaran?--dan dia yang tertawa pertamakali hari ini, juga akan tertawa yang terakhir Votes: 0

kedewasaan seseorang: setelah menemukan kembali keseriusaan yang pernah dimilikinya saat masih kanakkanak, saat sedang bermain. Votes: 0

tingkat dan sifat seksualitas seseorang meluas sampai puncak semangatnya Votes: 0

Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained. Votes: 0

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself. Votes: 0

Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged 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. Votes: 0

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow. Votes: 0

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. Votes: 0

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles. Votes: 0

Association with other people corrupts our character; especially when we have none. Votes: 0

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be. Votes: 0

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent. Votes: 0

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous. Votes: 0

When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher. Votes: 0

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary. Votes: 0

Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue! Votes: 0

The bite of conscience is indecent. Votes: 0

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every past is worth condemning. Votes: 0

...all concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable. Votes: 0

Sleep knocks on my eyes: they grow heavy. Sleep touches my mouth: it stays open.Truly, he comes to me on soft soles, the dearest of thieves, and steals my thoughts from me Votes: 0

The beast lives unhistorically; for it 'goes into' the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder. Votes: 0

In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena Votes: 0

For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain. Votes: 0

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love. Votes: 0

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired. Votes: 0

In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired. Votes: 0

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. Votes: 0

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes. Votes: 0

Man is the cruelest animal. Votes: 0

There are no egoistic or unegoistic actions: both concepts are psychological absurdities. Votes: 0

One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior. Votes: 0

With their virtues they want to scratch out the eyes of their enemies; and they elevate themselves only that they may lower others. Votes: 0

As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty. Votes: 0

The text has disappeared under the interpretation. Votes: 0

I have forgotten my umbrella. Votes: 0

The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire! Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this Votes: 0

My genius is in my nostrils. Votes: 0

Women are still cats and birds. Or at the best, cows. Votes: 0

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion. Votes: 0

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes. Votes: 0

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth. Votes: 0

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. Votes: 0

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not. Votes: 0

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare? Votes: 0

Belief means not wanting to know what is true. Votes: 0

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy. Votes: 0

...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. Votes: 0

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense. Votes: 0

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals. Votes: 0

What do you consider the most humane? - To spare someone shame. What is the seal of liberation? - To no longer be ashamed in front of oneself. Votes: 0

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. Votes: 0

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind. Votes: 0

Around the hero, everything becomes a tragedy.Around God, everything becomes what? a world? Votes: 0

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell. Votes: 0

The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles. Votes: 0

We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion on us. Votes: 0

To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. Votes: 0

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Votes: 0

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion. Votes: 0

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that. Votes: 0

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge. Votes: 0

There is no beast without cruelty Votes: 0

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs? Votes: 0

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"? Votes: 0

The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built. Votes: 0

He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat. Votes: 0

Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept. Votes: 0

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality. Votes: 0

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann. Votes: 0

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it. Votes: 0

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed Votes: 0

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up. Votes: 0

Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky. Votes: 0

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. Votes: 0

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. Votes: 0

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell. Votes: 0

Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions. Votes: 0

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. Votes: 0

Great intellects are skeptical. Votes: 0

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical. Votes: 0

Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications. Votes: 0

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. Votes: 0

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose. Votes: 0

... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live. Votes: 0

...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone. Votes: 0

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls Votes: 0

Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be a philosopher these days, would be compelled to establish the greatness of mankind, the idea of "greatness," on the basis of his own particular extensive range and multiplicity, his own totality in the midst of diversity. Votes: 0

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value. Votes: 0

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice. Votes: 0

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing. Votes: 0

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them. Votes: 0

Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind. Votes: 0

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it. Votes: 0

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. Votes: 0

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible? Votes: 0

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false. Votes: 0

I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else. Votes: 0

Supposing truth is a woman -- what then? Votes: 0

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth. Votes: 0

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive. Votes: 0

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace. Votes: 0

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting. Votes: 0

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey. Votes: 0

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too. Votes: 0

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. Votes: 0

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin. Votes: 0

A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us. Votes: 0

O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. Votes: 0

The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life...three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys. Votes: 0

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold. Votes: 0

It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves. Votes: 0

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents. Votes: 0

Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life. Votes: 0

No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery. Votes: 0

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). Votes: 0

Hold a true friend with both your hands. Votes: 0

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true. Votes: 0

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. Votes: 0

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe. Votes: 0

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs. Votes: 0

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself. Votes: 0

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions. Votes: 0

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts. Votes: 0

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience. Votes: 0

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever. Votes: 0

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones. Votes: 0

Plato was a bore. Votes: 0

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts. Votes: 0

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong. Votes: 0

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom. Votes: 0

The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life. Votes: 0

Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe. Votes: 0

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. Votes: 0

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions. Votes: 0

Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores! Votes: 0

"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. Votes: 0

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you. Votes: 0

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly. Votes: 0

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness. Votes: 0

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that. Votes: 0

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal. Votes: 0

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold? Votes: 0

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome. Votes: 0

A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on. Votes: 0

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. Votes: 0

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile. Votes: 0

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty. Votes: 0

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man. Votes: 0

Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height. Votes: 0

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. Votes: 0

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie Votes: 0

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life. Votes: 0

When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!" Votes: 0

I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight.... Votes: 0

Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it. Votes: 0

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you. Votes: 0

You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what? Votes: 0

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching? Votes: 0

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. Votes: 0

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance. Votes: 0

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. Votes: 0

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value. Votes: 0

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. Votes: 0

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began. Votes: 0

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? Votes: 0

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. Votes: 0

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros! Votes: 0

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering. Votes: 0

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. Votes: 0

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent. Votes: 0

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. Votes: 0

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. Votes: 0

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice. Votes: 0

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. Votes: 0

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. Votes: 0

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. Votes: 0

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. Votes: 0

I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood. Votes: 0

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them. Votes: 0

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises. Votes: 0

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. Votes: 0

Love is not consolation. It is light. Votes: 0

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly. Votes: 0

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live. Votes: 0

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. Votes: 0

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. Votes: 0

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies. Votes: 0

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company. Votes: 0

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. Votes: 0

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins. Votes: 0

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. Votes: 0

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend. Votes: 0

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. Votes: 0

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else! Votes: 0

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves. Votes: 0

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Votes: 0

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do. Votes: 0

He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness. Votes: 0

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed. Votes: 0

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd. Votes: 0

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame. Votes: 0

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts. Votes: 0

My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company. Votes: 0

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose. Votes: 0

Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity. Votes: 0

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself. Votes: 0

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes? Votes: 0

Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity. Votes: 0

...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn. Votes: 0

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another. Votes: 0

We have art so that we shall not die of reality. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest. Votes: 0

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's. Votes: 0

Fear is the mother of morality. Votes: 0

No artist tolerates reality. Votes: 0

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals. Votes: 0

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain. Votes: 0

I and me are always too deeply in conversation. Votes: 0

The real question is: How much truth can I stand? Votes: 0

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself. Votes: 0

The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell. Votes: 0

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material. Votes: 0

I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.) Votes: 0

For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them! Votes: 0

The final reward of the dead - to die no more Votes: 0

There's no defense against stupidity. Votes: 0

Everything matters. Nothing's important. Votes: 0

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, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it Votes: 0

He who obeys, does not listen to himself! Votes: 0

Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments. Votes: 0

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses. Votes: 0

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! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer. Votes: 0

Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead Votes: 0

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning. Votes: 0

Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it. Votes: 0

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil. Votes: 0

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes. Votes: 0

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness. Votes: 0

If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god. Votes: 0

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine. Votes: 0

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power. Votes: 0

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights! Votes: 0

We possess art lest we perish of the truth. Votes: 0

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others. Votes: 0

You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed? Votes: 0

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions. Votes: 0

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them. Votes: 0

Woman was God's second mistake. Votes: 0

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves. Votes: 0

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done. Votes: 0

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes? Votes: 0

We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose! Votes: 0

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty. Votes: 0

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book. Votes: 0

Become who you are! Votes: 0

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger Votes: 0

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us. Votes: 0

Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely. Votes: 0

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think! Votes: 0

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood. Votes: 0

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary Votes: 0

The lie is a condition of life. Votes: 0

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty. Votes: 0

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured? Votes: 0

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is. Votes: 0

By losing your goal, You have lost your way. Votes: 0

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored. Votes: 0

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison. Votes: 0

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak. Votes: 0

Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself). Votes: 0

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again. Votes: 0

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any single realized joy could be. Votes: 0

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation. Votes: 0

What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore? Votes: 0

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us Votes: 0

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character. Votes: 0

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed." Votes: 0

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all. Votes: 0

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic. Votes: 0

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further. Votes: 0

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.". Votes: 0

Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman. Votes: 0

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses. Votes: 0

We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty! Votes: 0

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures. Votes: 0

If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you. Votes: 0

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry. Votes: 0

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do? Votes: 0

Amor Fati – "Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life. Votes: 0

I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers... Votes: 0

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep. Votes: 0

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing. Votes: 0

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned. Votes: 0

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea. Votes: 0

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything. Votes: 0

One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong. Votes: 0

What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today. Votes: 0

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul. Votes: 0

When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work. Votes: 0

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty? Votes: 0

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge. Votes: 0

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal Votes: 0

If you know the why, you can live any how. Votes: 0

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all. Votes: 0

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty. Votes: 0

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self. Votes: 0

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right. Votes: 0

One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy. Votes: 0

Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation. Votes: 0

Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God. Votes: 0

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions. Votes: 0

My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues. Votes: 0

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life. Votes: 0

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you. Votes: 0

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all. Votes: 0

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself. Votes: 0

Pity makes suffering contagious. Votes: 0

Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion. Votes: 0

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves. Votes: 0

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally. Votes: 0

Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me. Votes: 0

He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul. Votes: 0

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age. Votes: 0

Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster. Votes: 0

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross. Votes: 0

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man? Votes: 0

I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words! Votes: 0

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good. Votes: 0

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites. Votes: 0

An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life. Votes: 0

There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things. Votes: 0

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings. Votes: 0

I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all. Votes: 0

Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself? Votes: 0

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher. Votes: 0

The love of power is the demon of mankind. Votes: 0

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul. Votes: 0

An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises. Votes: 0

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce. Votes: 0

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To have and to want more that is life. Votes: 0

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive. Votes: 0

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them. Votes: 0

It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself. Votes: 0

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy. Votes: 0

No victor believes in chance. Votes: 0

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously. Votes: 0

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar. Votes: 0

If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect. Votes: 0

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second. Votes: 0

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction Votes: 0

The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned. Votes: 0

Discontent is the seed of ethics. Votes: 0

Better know nothing than half-know many things. Votes: 0

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist. Votes: 0

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day. Votes: 0

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible. Votes: 0

All great men are play actors of their own ideal. Votes: 0

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws. Votes: 0

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness. Votes: 0

A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian... Votes: 0

I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired. Votes: 0

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also. Votes: 0

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves. Votes: 0

What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness Votes: 0

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain. Votes: 0

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love. Votes: 0

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think. Votes: 0

Only sick music makes money today. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature. Votes: 0

At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them. Votes: 0

Humility has the toughest hide. Votes: 0

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy. Votes: 0

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man! Votes: 0

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. Votes: 0

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? Votes: 0

The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell Votes: 0

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone. Votes: 0

If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed . Votes: 0

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame. Votes: 0

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. Votes: 0

If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts Votes: 0

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth. Votes: 0

That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much. Votes: 0

No one is such a liar as the indignant man. Votes: 0

It is the stillest words that bring the storm. Votes: 0

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance. Votes: 0

That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force. Votes: 0

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores. Votes: 0

This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy. Votes: 0

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery. Votes: 0

That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness. Votes: 0

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness. Votes: 0

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons. Votes: 0

Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it. Votes: 0

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is increasing--that resistance has been overcome. Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but competence. The first principle of our humanism: The weak and the failures shall perish. They ought even to be helped to perish. Votes: 0

How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy... Votes: 0

Man is more ape than many of the apes. Votes: 0

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. Votes: 0

Without passions you have no experience whatever. Votes: 0

The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs. Votes: 0

Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive! Votes: 0

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. Votes: 0

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us. Votes: 0

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine. Votes: 0

Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators. Votes: 0

Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him. Votes: 0

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end. Votes: 0

Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing. Votes: 0

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. Votes: 0

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air. Votes: 0

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. Votes: 0

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you. Votes: 0

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes. Votes: 0

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race. Votes: 0

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties. Votes: 0

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen. Votes: 0

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence. Votes: 0

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself. Votes: 0

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life. Votes: 0

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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". Votes: 0

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms. Votes: 0

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war. Votes: 0

You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory! Votes: 0

Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified. Votes: 0

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men. Votes: 0

My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth into light! Votes: 0

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence. Votes: 0

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads. Votes: 0

A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable. Votes: 0

Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures. Votes: 0

The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies. Votes: 0

Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights. Votes: 0

Art is the great stimulus to life. Votes: 0

What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived. Votes: 0

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished. Votes: 0

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure. Votes: 0

Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion. Votes: 0

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot. Votes: 0

Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness. Votes: 0

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power. Votes: 0

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon. Votes: 0

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis. Votes: 0

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour! Votes: 0

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death. Votes: 0

You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician. Votes: 0

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books? Votes: 0

The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice! Votes: 0

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss. Votes: 0

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen. Votes: 0

When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you. Votes: 0

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority. Votes: 0

Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it. Votes: 0

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body. Votes: 0

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night. Votes: 0

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident. Votes: 0

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper. Votes: 0

One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory! Votes: 0

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don't throw away the best of yourself. Votes: 0

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion. Votes: 0

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. Votes: 0

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer. Votes: 0

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements. Votes: 0

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us. Votes: 0

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture. Votes: 0

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless. Votes: 0

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness . Votes: 0

Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom. Votes: 0

Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired. Votes: 0

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters. Votes: 0

Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful. Votes: 0

Too long, the earth has been a madhouse! Votes: 0

Possessions are usually diminished by possession. Votes: 0

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things. Votes: 0

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth. Votes: 0

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see. Votes: 0

There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived. Votes: 0

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake. Votes: 0

Faith is the path of least resistance. Votes: 0

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will. Votes: 0

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing. Votes: 0

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'. Votes: 0

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty! Votes: 0

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again Votes: 0

I am one thing, my writings are another. Votes: 0

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access. Votes: 0

Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster. Votes: 0

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd. Votes: 0

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many. Votes: 0

The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight. Votes: 0

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world. Votes: 0

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth. Votes: 0

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions. Votes: 0

Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose. Votes: 0

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself. Votes: 0

Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance. Votes: 0

Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion. Votes: 0

The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth! Votes: 0

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it. Votes: 0

One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons. Votes: 0

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going. Votes: 0

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide! Votes: 0

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When thou goest to woman, take thy whip. Votes: 0

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like. Votes: 0

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports. Votes: 0

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration. Votes: 0

In a certain state it is indecent to live longer. Votes: 0

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only. Votes: 0

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions. Votes: 0

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights. Votes: 0

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile. Votes: 0

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government. Votes: 0

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox. Votes: 0

Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds. Votes: 0

One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one. Votes: 0

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial. Votes: 0

Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian. Votes: 0

All great artists and thinkers are great workers. Votes: 0

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return. Votes: 0

The value of life itself cannot be estimated. Votes: 0

Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them. Votes: 0

I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer! Votes: 0

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause. Votes: 0

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things. Votes: 0

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature. Votes: 0

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people. Votes: 0

Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know. Votes: 0

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed. Votes: 0

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. Votes: 0

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image. Votes: 0

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning. Votes: 0

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness. Votes: 0

The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies. Votes: 0

The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them. Votes: 0

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower. Votes: 0

Become who you are. Make what only you can make. Votes: 0

no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any Votes: 0

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). Votes: 0

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger. Votes: 0

I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation. Votes: 0

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth? Votes: 0

No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is. Votes: 0

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless... Votes: 0

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty. Votes: 0

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself. Votes: 0

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority. Votes: 0

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming. Votes: 0

We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance. Votes: 0

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation. Votes: 0

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants Votes: 0

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness. Votes: 0

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. Votes: 0

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book. Votes: 0

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly! Votes: 0

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane. Votes: 0

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon. Votes: 0

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God. Votes: 0

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life. Votes: 0

Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking. Votes: 0

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions. Votes: 0

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play. Votes: 0

From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here? Votes: 0

Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism. Votes: 0

But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue. Votes: 0

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power. Votes: 0

To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together. Votes: 0

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character. Votes: 0

Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there! Votes: 0

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself. Votes: 0

Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible! Votes: 0

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good. Votes: 0

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere. Votes: 0

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals. Votes: 0

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's! Votes: 0

Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous. Votes: 0

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved Votes: 0

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb. Votes: 0

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior. Votes: 0

truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal. Votes: 0

So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear. Votes: 0

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation. Votes: 0

Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows. Votes: 0

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite. Votes: 0

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. Votes: 0

Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior. Votes: 0

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived. Votes: 0

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers. Votes: 0

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . . Votes: 0

Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent. Votes: 0

On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine. Votes: 0

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare. Votes: 0

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser. Votes: 0

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting. Votes: 0

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment… Votes: 0

I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity! Votes: 0

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are. Votes: 0

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. Votes: 0

What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force. Votes: 0

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals. Votes: 0

What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it. Votes: 0

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times. Votes: 0

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned. Votes: 0

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy? Votes: 0

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth' is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living. Votes: 0

The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality. Votes: 0

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy. Votes: 0

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence- Votes: 0

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice' Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality. Votes: 0

For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing. Votes: 0

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate. Votes: 0

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts. Votes: 0

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. Votes: 0

How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell. Votes: 0

All words are prejudices. Votes: 0

In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection. Votes: 0

If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old? Votes: 0

. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind. Votes: 0

We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint. Votes: 0

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone. Votes: 0

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly. Votes: 0

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me. Votes: 0

But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely. Votes: 0

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher. Votes: 0

The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal". Votes: 0

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art. Votes: 0

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself Votes: 0

There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb. Votes: 0

On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams. Votes: 0

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace. Votes: 0

Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes! Votes: 0

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'. Votes: 0

While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role. Votes: 0

They will tell me I talk about things I have never experienced but only dreamed--to which I might reply: it is a lovely thing to dream such dreams! And besides, our dreams are much more our experiences than we believe--we must relearn about dreams! If I have dreamed thousands of times about flying--would you not believe that when I am awake I also possess feelings and needs giving me an edge on most people--and... Votes: 0

Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning. Votes: 0

Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine. Votes: 0

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating! Votes: 0

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another. Votes: 0

To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. Votes: 0

Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters. Votes: 0

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity. Votes: 0

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species. Votes: 0

Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness. Votes: 0

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them. Votes: 0

I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul. Votes: 0

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness. Votes: 0

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy. Votes: 0

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality. Votes: 0

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence. Votes: 0

Many find their heart when they have lost their head. Votes: 0

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished. Votes: 0

He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case. Votes: 0

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills. Votes: 0

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive. Votes: 0

The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around. Votes: 0

The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture. Votes: 0

Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas well as by the feeling of an incapacity for it (Min this respect a typical romantic!).... Fundamentally, Carlyle is an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one. Votes: 0

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth. Votes: 0

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive. Votes: 0

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are. Votes: 0

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him. Votes: 0

One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more. Votes: 0

One should only question gods where none but gods can reply. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God. Votes: 0

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard. Votes: 0

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise. Votes: 0

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations. Votes: 0

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad. Votes: 0

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is! Votes: 0

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one. Votes: 0

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it. Votes: 0

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy. Votes: 0

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges. Votes: 0

Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes. Votes: 0

In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions. Votes: 0

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye. Votes: 0

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness. Votes: 0

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable. Votes: 0

The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another. Votes: 0

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under. Votes: 0

Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible. Votes: 0

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine. Votes: 0

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother. Votes: 0

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception. Votes: 0

It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed. Votes: 0

When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them. Votes: 0

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless. Votes: 0

Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it. Votes: 0

One is punished best for one's virtues. Votes: 0

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue. Votes: 0

To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down. Votes: 0

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual. Votes: 0

You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil! Votes: 0

When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives. Votes: 0

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted. Votes: 0

Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh! Votes: 0

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile. Votes: 0

When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance. Votes: 0

Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those! Votes: 0

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. Votes: 0

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity. Votes: 0

The good displeases us when we are not up to it. Votes: 0

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free. Votes: 0

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage. Votes: 0

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect. Votes: 0

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue. Votes: 0

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. Votes: 0

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light. Votes: 0

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them. Votes: 0

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother. Votes: 0

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others. Votes: 0

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge. Votes: 0

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness. Votes: 0

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them. Votes: 0

Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness. Votes: 0

That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind. Votes: 0

Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions. Votes: 0

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless. Votes: 0

All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are. Votes: 0

The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad. Votes: 0

We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets. Votes: 0

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him. Votes: 0

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water. Votes: 0

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses. Votes: 0

I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals. Votes: 0

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say. Votes: 0

Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal. Votes: 0

Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness. Votes: 0

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous. Votes: 0

Respectability offends my taste. Votes: 0

What is the strongest cure?--Victory. Votes: 0

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations. Votes: 0

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy. Votes: 0

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity. Votes: 0

Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame. Votes: 0

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself. Votes: 0

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated. Votes: 0

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much. Votes: 0

We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses. Votes: 0

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance. Votes: 0

I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example! Votes: 0

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth. Votes: 0

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause. Votes: 0

And nobody lies as much as the indignant do. Votes: 0

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies. Votes: 0

When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either. Votes: 0

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant. Votes: 0

Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum. Votes: 0

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best. Votes: 0

The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming! Votes: 0

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness. Votes: 0

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil. Votes: 0

In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire. Votes: 0

Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so. Votes: 0

The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation. Votes: 0

Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. Votes: 0

We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to. Votes: 0

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers. Votes: 0

With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring. Votes: 0

All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings. Votes: 0

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings. Votes: 0

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes. Votes: 0

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards. Votes: 0

Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added). Votes: 0

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you. Votes: 0

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire. Votes: 0

One should steal only where one cannot rob. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important. Votes: 0

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves. Votes: 0

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe. Votes: 0

Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals. Votes: 0

Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks. Votes: 0

One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment. Votes: 0

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity. Votes: 0

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth. Votes: 0

Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under. Votes: 0

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves. Votes: 0

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it. Votes: 0

Many things about man are not very godly: whenever a person excretes feces, how can he be a god then? But it is even worse regarding the other feces we call sin: man still surely wants to retain this, and not excrete it. Now however, I must believe it: a person can be God and still excrete feces. Thus I teach you, excrete your feces and become gods. Votes: 0

The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him. Votes: 0

Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements. Votes: 0

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn? Votes: 0

Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers. Votes: 0

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields. Votes: 0

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little. Votes: 0

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stockor a painful embarrassment. Votes: 0

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength. Votes: 0

There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves. Votes: 0

I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer? Votes: 0

Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it. Votes: 0

Out of a brotherly love we occasionally embrace this or that somebody (because we cannot embrace everybody): but we must never letour somebody know it. Votes: 0

There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all. Votes: 0

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity. Votes: 0

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are? Votes: 0

I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance. Votes: 0

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God. Votes: 0

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you. Votes: 0

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed! Votes: 0

Man makes god in his own image. Votes: 0

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself. Votes: 0

If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning. Votes: 0

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity. Votes: 0

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out. Votes: 0

To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved. Votes: 0

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge. Votes: 0

If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip. Votes: 0

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one. Votes: 0

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals. Votes: 0

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them. Votes: 0

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it. Votes: 0

Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone. Votes: 0

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong. Votes: 0

For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself! Votes: 0

This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy. Votes: 0

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve. Votes: 0

Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane. Votes: 0

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence. Votes: 0

Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under. Votes: 0

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral. Votes: 0

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs. Votes: 0

As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption. Votes: 0

One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation. Votes: 0

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions. Votes: 0

One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I no longer want to walk on worn soles. Votes: 0

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish. Votes: 0

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized. Votes: 0

I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed. Votes: 0

The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration. Votes: 0

If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable Votes: 0

Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest Votes: 0

The really historical performance would talk to ghosts. Votes: 0

This world is the will to power and nothing besides! Votes: 0

I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding. Votes: 0

The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy. Votes: 0

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings. Votes: 0

There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally, what was left to be sacrificed? Didn't people have to sacrifice god himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves? Votes: 0

Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature Votes: 0

You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion? Votes: 0

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place. Votes: 0

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us. Votes: 0

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise. Votes: 0

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain. Votes: 0

When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice. Votes: 0

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement. Votes: 0

We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths. Votes: 0

I am not a man, I am dynamite! Votes: 0

You shall become the person you are. Votes: 0

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles. Votes: 0

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it. Votes: 0

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it. Votes: 0

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals. Votes: 0

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child. Votes: 0

I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil. Votes: 0

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences. Votes: 0

With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them. Votes: 0

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys. Votes: 0

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself? Votes: 0

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason. Votes: 0

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man. Votes: 0

Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style. Votes: 0

Christianity is Platonism for the people. Votes: 0

As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion. Votes: 0

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus]. Votes: 0

Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties. Votes: 0

[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth. Votes: 0

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty. Votes: 0

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling. Votes: 0

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully. Votes: 0

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth. Votes: 0

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust. Votes: 0

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God? Votes: 0

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live Votes: 0

Show me that you are redeemed, and I will believe in your Redeemer. Votes: 0

I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd. Votes: 0

This verse gets me through each day, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the lord is my shepherd! Votes: 0

But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world. Votes: 0

In the end one only experiences oneself. Votes: 0

I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along. Votes: 0

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste. Votes: 0

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture. Votes: 0

The melancholia of everything completed! Votes: 0

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness Votes: 0

Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion. Votes: 0

Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity. Votes: 0

One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives. Votes: 0

How much beer is in German intelligence? Votes: 0

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself. Votes: 0

A married philosopher is a comic character. Votes: 0

The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills. Votes: 0

The universe without music would be madness. Votes: 0

There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom? Votes: 0

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant. Votes: 0

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy. Votes: 0

One who has a why can endure anyhow. Votes: 0

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself. Votes: 0

It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great. Votes: 0