Friedrich Nietzsche

“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.”

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”

“Man muß noch Kaos in sich haben um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können”

“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”

“Art is the proper task of life. ”

“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ”

“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”

“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”

“É necessário nunca haver se poupado, é necessário ter a dureza entre seus hábitos, para estar bem e sereno entre somente duras verdades.”

“Man verdirbt einen Jüngling am sichersten, wenn man ihn anleitet, den Gleichdenkenden höher zu achten, als den Andersdenkenden.”

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“the Alexandrian man, who is basically a librarian and copy editor and goes miserably blind from the dust of books and printing errors.”

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”

“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”

“Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.”

“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.”

“They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!”

“Man permits himself to be lied to at night, his life long, when he dreams, and his moral sense never even tries to prevent this—although men have been said to have overcome snoring by sheer will power.”

“It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better.”

“Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird.”

“Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.”

“Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health...”

“He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!”

“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. ”

“Creation-that is the great redemption from suffering, and life's growing light. But that the creator may be, much suffering is needed and much change. Indeed, there must be much bitter dying in your life, you creators”

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”

“In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.”

“Todo el que disfruta cree que lo que importa del árbol es el fruto, cuando en realidad es la semilla.He aquí la diferencia entre los que creen y los que disfrutan.”

“Yo necesito compañeros, pero compañeros vivos; no muertos y cadáveres que tenga que llevar a cuestas por donde vaya.”

“Creo que los animales ven en el hombre un ser igual a ellos que ha perdido de forma extraordinariamente peligrosa el sano intelecto animal, es decir, que ven en él al animal irracional, al animal que ríe, al animal que llora, al animal infeliz.”

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”

“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”

“Plato was a bore.”

“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”

“Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.”

“I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.”

“The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.”

“One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive.”

“What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.”

“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.”

“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.”