There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Joy is the will which labors, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The purpose of life is to find your gift. The meaning of life is to give it away.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is not consolation. It is light.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We have art in order not to die from the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In truth, there was only one Christian and he died on the cross.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Without cruelty, there is no festival.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions—as attempts to find out something.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
Friedrich Nietzsche
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?
Friedrich Nietzsche
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
Friedrich Nietzsche
No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In every real man, a child is hidden that wants to play.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm not upset that you lied to me, but I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is the cruelest animal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is your will to shine that calls me. It is your desire to be great that calls me. Let the weak ones die. Let the fools die. Let the souls be miserable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The doer alone learneth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Become who you are.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche