Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Love, too, has to be learned.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles when a carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.