Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings.

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

By losing your goal, You have lost your way.

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age?

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time you are together will be devoted to conversation.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

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.

Live in danger. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.