Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

Giving style" to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Sensuality often hastens the Growth of Love so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.

There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?