Friedrich Nietzsche
One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Change
Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.Collection: Want
The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.Collection: Beautiful
What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.Collection: Jesus
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.Collection: Being Yourself
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.Collection: Love You
If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.Collection: Powerful
Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.Collection: Truth
The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.Collection: Roots
From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.Collection: Passion
...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.Collection: Sweet
Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.Collection: Marriage
In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.Collection: Solitude
The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.Collection: Strong
Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.Collection: Impossible
Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.Collection: Children
The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.Collection: Ambition
Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.Collection: Creating
What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.Collection: Ashamed
Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.Collection: Ideas
I love him whose soul is deep even in the woundingCollection: I Love Him
Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.Collection: Smooth
Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.Collection: Responsibility
Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.Collection: Life
My genius is in my nostrils.Collection: Genius
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.Collection: Friendship
What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.Collection: Humility
One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."Collection: Independent
Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.Collection: Writing
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.Collection: Lying
Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.Collection: Understood
The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs usCollection: Lying
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.Collection: Rights
The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.Collection: Friendship
Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?Collection: Epidemics
There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.Collection: Pregnancy
When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".Collection: Morning
My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.Collection: Brother
There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.Collection: Greatness
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.Collection: Art
What is life? A continuous praise and blame.Collection: Life
You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinkingCollection: Self Esteem
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.Collection: Philosophy
History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.Collection: Teacher
Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.Collection: Funeral
Humility has the toughest hide.Collection: Humility
He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.Collection: Sacrifice
...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.Collection: Psychologist