Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

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.

Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.

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

Success has always been a great liar.

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

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

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

A vocation is the backbone of life.

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.