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The fleetest beast to bear you to perfection is suffering. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!
Once you were young--now you are even younger. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I soon learned to separate theological from moral prejudices, and I gave up looking for a supernatural origin of evil. A — Friedrich Nietzsche

A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I beg of you my brothers, remain true to the earth, believe not those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poisoners are they. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Virtue is the health of the soul, — Friedrich Nietzsche

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying
that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Among austere men intimacy involves shame
and is something precious. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage- it is called Self; it dwells in your body, it is your body. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has much to put in them, a day has a thousand pockets. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153 — Friedrich Nietzsche

Even the worst thing has two good verso-sides. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Certitude drives people mad. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

A man who loves like a woman becomes thereby a slave ; a woman, however, who loves like a woman becomes thereby a more perfect woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

How much blood and horror is at the bottom of all 'good things'! — Friedrich Nietzsche

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself? — Friedrich Nietzsche

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Supposing truth is a woman -- what then? — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Do I then strive after happiness? I strive after my work! — Friedrich Nietzsche

I am of today and of the has-been (he said then); but there is something in me that is of tomorrow and of the day-after-tomorrow and of the shall-be. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell. — Friedrich Nietzsche

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome — Friedrich Nietzsche

That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won't chime. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Slow is the experience of all deep fountains: long have they to wait until they know what has fallen into their depths. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own
that is, for his age
so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again! — Friedrich Nietzsche

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Why?" said Zarathustra. "Thou askest why? I do not belong to those who may be asked after their Why. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, all too human. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!
The sting of conscience is indecent. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Have you understood me? Dionysus versus Christ. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up. — Friedrich Nietzsche

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Behold, I am weary of my wisdom,
like a bee that has gathered too much honey;
I need hands outstretched to receive it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence — Friedrich Nietzsche

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that? — Friedrich Nietzsche

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide! — Friedrich Nietzsche

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously. — Friedrich Nietzsche

On account of those absolute and impatient ones, be not jealous, thou lover of truth! Never yet did truth cling to the arm of an absolute one. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks! — Friedrich Nietzsche

The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves
from "justifying" ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Life without music is a mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other. — Friedrich Nietzsche

One has to know the size of one's stomach. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness runneth after me. That is because I do not run after women. Happiness, however, is a woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation. — Friedrich Nietzsche