Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Amor Fati – "Love Your Fate", which is in fact your life.

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

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

Art is the proper task of life.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Become who you are!

Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. Good is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a common good! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.