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

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

Plus d’un qui n’a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

A thinking man never be a party man.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official,...

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [….] Without cruelty there is no festival.

Manual of internal culture for external barbarians.” The opposition of inner and outer makes the outer side still more barbarous, as it would naturally be, when the outward growth of a rude people merely developed...

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

philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness.

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up...

Error regarding life necessary to life. – Every belief in the value and dignity of life rests on false thinking; it is possible only through the fact that empathy with the universal life and suffering...

apa gunanya bahwa saya terbukti benar? saya berada di sisi kebenaran?–dan dia yang tertawa pertamakali hari ini, juga akan tertawa yang terakhir

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

Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we...

To recognize untruth as a condition of life–that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

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

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature–: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

Here in this supreme menace of the will, there approaches aredeeming, healing, enchantress—art. She alone can turn thesethoughts of repulsion at the horror and absurdity of existence intoideas compatible with life: these are the sublime—the...

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

Lucrurile supreme trebuie să aibă o altă origine, una proprie lor, – ele nu ar putea lua naştere din această lume efemeră, înşelătoare, iluzorie şi mizeră, din această harababură de amăgiri şi pofte!

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...

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking

Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

… a thing can only live through a pious illusion.

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 whe na carriage goes past. I however am...

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

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...

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

Business people – Your business – is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to the inclinations you feel. Diligent in business – but indolent in spirit, content...

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let...

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

The word “Christianity” is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the cross.

And just look at these men: their eye saith it – they know nothing better on earth than to be with a woman.Filth is at the bottom of their souls; and alas! If their filth...

Man träumt gar nicht, oder interessant — Man muss lernen, ebeson zu wachen: — gar nicht, oder interessant

Whatever they may think and say about their “egoism”, the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has...

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he...

Water is sufficient…the spirit moves over water.

He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

When your heart flows broad and full like a river, a blessing and a danger to those living near: there is the origin of your virtue.When you are above praise and blame, and your will...

saat cinta ataupun kebencia tidak berperan, tindaka perempuan akan biasabiasa saja

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I consist of body and soul – in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn’t we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more;...

Dove la moralità è troppo forte l’intelletto perisce.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

Man is something that shall be overcome…. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss… What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not...

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.