Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of ones own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there

One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it.

Equality before the enemy -that is the main condition to fight a fair duel. Where you have contempt, you cannot wage war; where you are in command, where you can see someone beneath you, you should not wage war.

... a thing can only live through a pious illusion.

Dante, I think, committed a crude blunder when, with a terror-inspiring ingenuity, he placed above the gateway of his hell the inscription, I too was created by eternal love--at any rate, there would be more justification for placing above the gateway to the Christian Paradise...the inscription I too was created by eternal hate...

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Knowing ones individuality. - We are too prone to forget that in the eyes of people who are seeing us for the first time we are something quite different from what we consider ourselves to be: usually we are nothing more than a single individual trait which leaps to the eye and determines the whole impression that we make.

Women are still cats and birds. Or at the best, cows.

In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.

Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with myths can unify a culture. The forces of imagination and the Apollonian dream are saved only by myth from indiscriminate rambling. The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, ubiquitous but unnoticed, presiding over the growth of the childs mind and interpreting to the mature man his life and struggles.

There is something the child sees that he does not see; something the child hears that he does not hear; and this something is the most important thing of all. Because he does not understand it, his understanding is more childish than the childs and more simple than simplicity itself; in spite of the many clever wrinkles on his parchment face, and the masterly play of his fingers in unravelling the knots.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.

Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people for each other gives way to a new desire and greed, a shared higher thirst for an ideal above them. But who knows such love? who has experienced it? Its true name is friendship

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?