Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths”

“Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep? To the very toes he is terrified, because the ground gives way under him, and the dream begins.”

“He who has a why can endure any how”

“To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task”

“This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.”

“Love is not consolation. It is light.”

“Great intellects are skeptical”

“I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.”

“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.”

“What is happiness? The feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome”

“If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism”

“The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.”

“Original Experience has not been interpreted for you, and so you’ve got to work out life for yourself. Either you can take it or you can’t. You don’t have to go far off the interpreted path to find yourself in very difficult situations. The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience – that is the hero’s deed.”

“Any life career that you choose in following your bliss should be chosen with that sense — that nobody can frighten me off from this thing. And no matter what happens, this is the validation of my life and action.”

“If You Are On Your Own Path Things Are Going To Come To You. Since It Is Your Own Path & No One Has Ever Been On It Before, there’s No Precedent, So Everything That Happens Is A Surprise & Is Timely.”

“Love thine enemies because they are the instruments to your destiny.”

“Bad cooks -- and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen -- have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.”

“One should never know too precisely whom one has married”

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

“At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.”