Friedrich Nietzsche

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.

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

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

The bite of conscience is indecent.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.