Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young??now you are even younger.

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

Swallow your poison, for you need it badly.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Have you ever said Yes to a single joy? O my friends, then you have said Yes too to all woe. All things are entangled, ensnared, enamored; if ever you wanted one thing twice, if ever you said, You please me, happiness! Abide, moment! then you wanted all back. All anew, all eternally, all entangled, ensnared, enamored--oh then you loved the world. Eternal ones, love it eternally and evermore; and to woe too, you say: go, but return! For all joy wants--eternity .

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad.

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the work itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the work, whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; great men, as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

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

Your educators can only be your liberators.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.