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That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Twilight of the Idols
God is dead: but considering the state of the species Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Die frohliche Wissenschaft
Woman was God's second mistake.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, The Antichrist
Man is something to be surpassed.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Thus Spake Zarathustra
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
Every tradition grows ever more venerable - the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Human, All Too Human
Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those “truths” we once believed.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, "Truth Will Have No Other Gods Alongside It"
A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Human, All Too Human
Against boredom even the gods struggle in vain.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, The Antichrist
Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Thus Spake Zarathustra
In revenge and in love woman is more barbaric than man is.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Family Circle Magazine, Aug. 9, 2005
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.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
A little health now and again is the ailing person’s best remedy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, The Wanderer and His Shadow
Great intellects are skeptical.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, The Antichrist
Christianity came into existence to lighten the heart, but now it needs to burden the heart to start with so it can lighten it afterwards. Consequently, it will perish.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Human, All Too Human
The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, unpublished fragment, Nov. 1887
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Thus Spake Zarathustra
It is in our wild nature that we best recover from our un-nature, our spirituality.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Twilight of the Idols
When stepped on, the worm curls up. That is a clever thing to do. Thus it reduces its chances of being stepped on again. In the language of morality: humility.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, "Maxims and Arrows," Twilight of the Idols
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is -- a vice?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, "Maxims and Arrows," Twilight of the Idols
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
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.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Human, All Too Human
The secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, The Joyful Wisdom
In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Human, All-too-Human
God is a thought which makes crooked all that is straight.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Thus Spake Zarathustra
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Übermensch--a rope over an abyss.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
One repays a teacher badly if one remains always only a student.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Present experience has, I am afraid, always found us "absent-minded": we cannot give our hearts to it--not even our ears! Rather, as one divinely preoccupied and immersed in himself into whose ear the bell has just boomed with all its strength the twelve beats of noon suddenly starts up and asks himself: "what really was that which just struck?" so we sometimes rub our ears afterward and as, utterly surprised and disconcerted, "what really was that which we have just experienced?"
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, preface, Genealogy of Morals
Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Genealogy of Morals
Of all that is written I love only what a man has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Beauty's voice speaks gently: it creeps only into the most awakened souls.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
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