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Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!
And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Books for the masses are always bad-smelling books: the odour of little people cling to them.

Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

The real question is: How much truth can I stand?

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

Christianity is religion for the executioner.

From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'

All truths are bloody truths to me.

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

That which is ready to fall, shall ye also push!

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

One is punished best for one's virtues.

Basic insight regarding the nature of decadence: it's supposed causes are its consequences.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

We are all afraid of the truth.

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.

The worst things, however, are the petty thoughts. Verily, better to have done evilly than to have thought pettily!

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

Whoever does not believe himself always lies.

Love - Love forgives the lover even his lust. 63

The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

Morality is a fiction used by a herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior ones..!!

The English are the people of consummate cant.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence.

And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness.

Stay not where the lowlands are! Climb not into the sky! The world looks best by far when viewed from halfway high.

One times One.-One only is always in the wrong, but with two truth begins.-One only cannot prove himself right; but two are already beyond refutation.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going.

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

Even if it should happen to be a rhyme not suited for every one's ears. I unlearned long ago to have consideration for long ears.

He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed.

He that feeds the hungry refreshes his own soul, says wisdom.

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

I will teach men the meaning of their existence: the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud- man.

The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

Have already in the fourth act killed all the Gods- for the sake of morality!

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

I fear you close by; I love you far away.

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?
that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Nothing avails: every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for mastership. [408]

We are so fond of being out in Nature because it has no opinions of us.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

Christianity is the metaphysics of the hangman.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

The only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.

You say you're a pessimist, but I happen to know that you're in the habit of practicing your flute for two hours every evening.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

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

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power
assuming that life itself is the will to power.

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

The hour-hand of life.

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

If spouses did not live together, good marriages would be more frequent.

Yes, I recognize Zarathustra. His eyes are clear now, no longer does he sneer with loathing. Just see how he dances along!

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

All truth is simple ... is that not doubly a lie?

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

The sedentary life ... is the real sin against the holy spirit.

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.