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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.
Man is the cruelest animal.
A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.
Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.
One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.
I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.
Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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