Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

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

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

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

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

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

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

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

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.

Women are quite capable of entering into a friendship with a man, but to keep it going that takes a little physical antipathy as well.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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.

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

True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes.

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

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

Blessed are the forgetful; for they get the better even of their blunders

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

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

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

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

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