Friedrich Nietzsche's quote

(October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) German philosopher, poet, cultural critic and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.
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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
All great artists and thinkers are great workers
Without music, life would be a mistake. Twilight of the Idols
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
What labels me, negates me.
In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Art is the proper task of life.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
Man is the cruelest animal.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
Invisible threads are the strongest ties
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Amor Fati – Love Your Fate, which is in fact your life.
Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.
Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
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.
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. Twilight of the Idols
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.
They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
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.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Become who you are! Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
My dear friend, what is this our life? A boat that swims in the sea, and all one knows for certain about it is that one day it will capsize. Here we are, two good old boats that have been faithful neighbors, and above all your hand has done its best to keep me from "capsizing"! Let us then continue our voyage—each for the other's sake, for a long time yet, a long time! We should miss each other so much! Tolerably calm seas and good winds and above all sun—what I wish for myself, I wish for you, too, and am sorry that my gratitude can find expression only in such a wish and has no influence at all on wind or weather!
One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up. The Portable Nietzsche
There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.
I am one thing, my writings are another.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.
Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.
One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive.
If you know the why, you can live any how.
Only sick music makes money today.
What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
What is evil? Whatever springs from weakness.