Friedrich Nietzsche

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

This is my way; where is yours? —- Thus I answered those who asked me ‘the way.’ For the way--that does not exist.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

But whoever would become light and a bird must love himself: thus I teach... 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.

One must still have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

A gauge for wisdom.- The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don't throw away the best of yourself.

But by my love and hope I beseech you: Do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

Sensuality often hastens the growth of love so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author -- and not to learn it better.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

That is mediocrity though it be called moderation.

I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? … The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it . . . but to love it.

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

But whoever would become light and a bird must love himself: thus I teach... 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.

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

Is not life a hundred times too short to bore ourselves?

I must perfect myself.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.

He who would learn to fly one day must learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Never Forget!- The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

What is the seal of attained freedom? -No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.

‘This is my way; where is yours?’ Thus I answered those who asked me ‘the way.’ For the way—that does not exist.

God is dead.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

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

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

Become who you are!

Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

This is my way; where is yours? – Thus I answered those who asked me “the way.” For "the way" – that does not exist.

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Great things are accomplished by those people whose thinking is active in one direction. ... who take more pleasure in doing little, secondary things well.

Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.

Shedding one's skin. The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. So do the spirits who are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be spirit.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Believe me! The secret to reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

This is my way; where is yours? – Thus I answered those who asked me 'the way.' For the way – that does not exist.

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the frenzy with which you should be inoculated? Behold, I teach you the overman: He is this lightning; he is this frenzy.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.

It is out of the deepest depth that the highest must come to its height.

This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return...<br /><br />One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

Break, break, you lovers of knowledge, the old tablets!

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.

Whoever must be a creator in good and evil, verily, he must first be an annihilator and break values.

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

He who has a why to live for, can bear almost any how.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author – and not to learn it better.

He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!

The most basic form of stupidity is forgetting what we are trying to accomplish.

What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.