Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.”

“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.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”

“One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.”

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

“Just as in the second part of a verse bad poets seek a thought to fit their rhyme, so in the second half of their lives people tend to become more anxious about finding actions, positions, relationships that fit those of their earlier lives, so that everything harmonizes quite well on the surface: but their lives are no longer ruled by a strong thought, and instead, in its place, comes the intention of finding a rhyme.”

“But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.”

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