Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.

Aristotle says that in order to live alone one must either be an animal or a god. The third alternative is lacking. A man must be both; a philosopher.

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...

We sleepwalkers of the day! We artists! We who conceal naturalness! We who are moon- and God-struck! We untiring wanderers, silent as death, on heights that we see not as heights but as our plains, as our safety.

The true world -- we have abolished. What world has remained? The apparent one perhaps? But no! With the true world we have also abolished the apparent one.

A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal .

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective knowing; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our concept of this thing, our objectivity, be.

Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to the inclinations you feel. Diligent in business - but indolent in spirit, content with your inadequacy, and with the cloak of duty hung over this contentment: that is how you live, that is how you want your children to live!

It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

Free, dost thou call thyself? Thy ruling thought would I hear of, and not that thou hast escaped from a yoke. Art thou one ENTITLED to escape from a yoke? Many a one hath cast away his final worth when he hath cast away his servitude. Free from what? What doth that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall thine eye show unto me: free FOR WHAT?

For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.

That which now calls itself democracy differs from older forms of government solely in that it drives with new horses: the streets are still the same old streets, and the wheels are likewise the same old wheels.

But if you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good. And rather be angry than put to shame. And if you are cursed, I do not like that you want to bless. Rather join a little in the cursing.

I will teach men the meaning of their existence: the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud- man.

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves

They believe one becomes selfless in love because one desires the advantage of another human being, often against one's own advantage. But in return for that they want to possess the other person.

very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions—? Rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions

It is terrible to die of thirst on the sea. Does your truth have to be so salty that it can no longer even—quench thirst?

If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory.

Dare only to believe in yourselves- in yourselves and in your inward parts! He who does not believe in himself always lies.

My loneliness is not By the presence or absence of people; On the contrary, I hate who steals my loneliness, Without, in exchange, offer me a real company

And must I not conceal myself like one who has swallowed gold- lest my soul should be ripped up?

He who fights monster should beware, lest he become a monster himself