Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Of all that is written, I love only that which a man has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit.

So bless me then, you tranquil eye that can behold even the greatest happiness without envy!

The man looked up distrustfully. If you speak the truth, said he, I lose nothing when I lose my life. I am not much more than an animal which has been taught to dance by blows and a few scraps of food.

Back then you carried your ashes to the mountain; would you now carry your fire into the alley?

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going.

Injury makes one prudent,' says the proverb; insofar as it makes one prudent it also makes one bad. Fortunately, it frequently makes people stupid.

Debemos guardarnos de la confusión en que por contiguity [contiguidad] psicológica, para decirlo igual que los ingleses, muy fácilmente cae un artista: la de creer que él mismo es aquello que él puede representar, concebir, expresar. En realidad ocurre que, si él lo fuera, no lo podría en absoluto representar, concebir, expresar.

An incalculable number of higher individuals now perish: but he who escapes their fate is as strong as the devil.

spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But finally he had a change of heart

hati terikat, jiwa bebas.--jika kau mengikat dan merantai hatimu kuatkuat, kau dapat memberikan banyak kebebasan pada jiwamu: itulah yang ku katakan pada suatu hari. akan tetapi orangorang tidak percaya, kecuali saat mereka benarbenar menemukannya

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wants no thanks and does not give back: for he always gives, and desires not to keep for himself.

Marriage as a long conversation. When entering a marriage, one should ask the question: do you think you will be able to have good conversations with this woman right into old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time in interaction is spent in conversation.

For, confronted with morality (especially Christian, or unconditional, morality), life must continually and inevitably be in the wrong, because life is something essentially amoral--and eventually, crushed by the weight of contempt and the eternal No, life must then be felt to be unworthy of desire and altogether worthless.

Odobravanje. Mislilac ne potrebuje odobravanje i pljesak, uz pretpostavku da je siguran u svoj vlastiti pljesak.

The word of the past is an oracle uttered. Only as builders of the future, as knowing the present, will you understand it.

apa yang dilakukan demi cinta, selalu terjadi diluar kebaikan dan kejahatan

One does not attack a person merely to hurt and conquer him, but perhaps merely to become conscious of one's own strength.

What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'.

An artist chooses his subjects.. that is the way he praises.

The tragic artist is not a pessimist — it is precisely he who affirms all that is questionable and terrible in existence, he is Dionysian.

Honest things, like honest men, do not carry their reasons in their hands like that. It is indecent to show all five fingers. What must first be proved is worth little.

Anything which] is a living thing and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will of life.