Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.

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.

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.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

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

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

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

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.