Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

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 henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don't throw away the best of yourself.

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.

Only sick music makes money today.

I am one thing, my writings are another.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

I obviously do everything to be hard to understand myself

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.

The text has disappeared under the interpretation.

Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können. (You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.)

I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

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.