“Become who you are.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
“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.”
“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
“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.”
“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
“I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”
“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
“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.”
“All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.”
“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
“He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”
“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
“That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
“Man is the cruelest animal.”
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
“What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.”
“The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.”
“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
“That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.”
“Art is the proper task of life. ”
“Live dangerously.”
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
“Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.”
“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
“God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.”
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.”
“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
“And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.”
“Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”
“What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.”
“Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
“If you know the why, you can live any how.”
“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”
“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”
“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
“A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”
“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”
“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.”
“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”
“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions – as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
“As long as you still experience the stars as something “above you”, you lack the eye of knowledge.”
“Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.”
“What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.”
“Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.”
“A thought comes when it will, not when I will.”
“One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive.”
“If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts.”
“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”
“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them.”
“Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.”
“There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.”
“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”
“Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.”
“Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.”
“Only sick music makes money today.”
“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”
“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
“The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”
“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”
“No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.”
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”
“The life of the enemy. Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy’s staying alive.”
“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”
“The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.”
“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”
“I am one thing, my writings are another.”
“You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”
“He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!”
“A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.”
“The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.”
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