Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

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

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.

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

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.

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

Love forgives the lover even his lust.

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

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

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.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding

It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

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

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

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

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

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

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.

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

On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!