Friedrich Nietzsche
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Love is not consolation. It is light.
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
The lie is a condition of life.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.