Friedrich Nietzsche
“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?Collection: Song
Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.Collection: Dog
Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.Collection: Men
It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.Collection: Jesus
Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.Collection: Demand
Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.Collection: Philosophical
Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.Collection: Life
Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.Collection: Success
Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.Collection: Long
How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy.Collection: Philosophy
He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.Collection: Bird
Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?Collection: Cold
Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.Collection: Happiness
Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.Collection: Men
The noble soul reveres itselfCollection: Soul
One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.Collection: Men
Many things about man are not very godly: whenever a person excretes feces, how can he be a god then? But it is even worse regarding the other feces we call sin: man still surely wants to retain this, and not excrete it. Now however, I must believe it: a person can be God and still excrete feces. Thus I teach you, excrete your feces and become gods.Collection: Believe
Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!Collection: Earth
The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.Collection: Success
That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.Collection: Motivational Bodybuilding
We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, – it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.Collection: Book