Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion on us.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Psychology has falsified love as surrender and altruism, while it is an appropriation or a bestowal following from a super-abundance of personality. Only the most complete persons can love. The depersonalized and objective are the worst lovers.

What do you consider the most humane? - To spare someone shame. What is the seal of liberation? - To no longer be ashamed in front of oneself.

To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain.

Gratitude pours forth continually, as if the unexpected had just happened—the gratitude of a convalescent—for convalescence was unexpected…. The rejoicing of strength that is returning, of a reawakened faith in a tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, of a sudden sense and anticipation of a future, of impending adventures, of seas that are open again.

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion in continual pretense and overreaching and anticipating other. Virtue has come to consist of doing something in less time that someone else. Hours in which honesty is permitted have become rare, and when they arrive one is tired and does not only want to let oneself go but actually wishes to stretch out as long and wide and ungainly as one happens to be... Soon we may well reach the point where people can no longer give in to the desire for a vita contemplativa (that is, taking a walk with ideas and friends) without self-contempt and a bad conscience.

It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.There is always a certain madness in love. But also there is always a certain method in madness.

There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.

There are so many futures still to dawn!

To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.

Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief on already has.