There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Love is not consolation. It is light.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
The lie is a condition of life.
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.
Plato was a bore.
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
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.
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.
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Success has always been a great liar.
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
