Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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.

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

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

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

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!"

In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks, and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

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

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.

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.

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.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none.

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.

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

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

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.

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.

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. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing.

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.

And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.

At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human 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.

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the best even of their blunders.