Friedrich Nietzsche
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Plato was a bore.
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.Collection: Darkness
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.Collection: Block
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.Collection: Inspirational
Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.Collection: Equal
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.Collection: Inspirational
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.Collection: Inspirational
Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.Collection: Enjoy Life
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.Collection: Men
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.Collection: Relationship
There's no defense against stupidity.Collection: Stupidity
We have art so that we shall not die of reality.Collection: Art