Quotes from Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strange soundeth the precept: Die at the right time!

Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that GOD IS DEAD!

there they laugh: they understand me not; I am not the mouth for these ears.

This world, the eternally imperfect, an eternal contradiction's image and imperfect image—an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator:—thus did the world once seem to me.

Anyone who cannot manage to invest his will in things at least invests them with a meaning: i.e. he believes there is already a will in them (principle of 'belief).Anyone who cannot manage to invest his will in things at least invests them with a meaning: i.e. he believes there is already a will in them (principle of 'belief).

Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism.

Is he a poet? Or a genuine one? An emancipator? Or a subjugator? A good one? Or an evil one?

Of all that is written I love only what a man has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will experience that blood is spirit.

Als 'ein Frevel, als ein Raub an der göttlichen Natur' erscheine hier die Aneignung des Feuers, der erste Schritt 'jeder aufsteigenden Kultur', und diesen 'arischen Mythus', der 'den heroischen Drang' darstelle, 'über den Bann der Individuation hinauszuschreiten', stellt er den 'semitischen Sündenfallmythus [entgegen], in welchem die Neugierde, die lügnerische Vorspiegelung, die Verführbarkeit, die Lüsternheit [...] als der Ursprung des übels angesehen wurde'.

Cada dia en que no bailemos, al menos una vez, debemos considerarlo perdido. Y cada verdad que no venga acompañada de al menos una risa, debera considerarse mentira.

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.

Never to talk about yourself is a refined form of hypocrisy.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

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.

I distrust all systematisers, and avoid them. The will to a system shows a lack of honesty.

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

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

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.

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

Not a few who meant to drive out their demons went thereby into the swine themselves.

Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety 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.

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it -- it is the future that makes laws for us today.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.