Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.

Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs