The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy’s staying alive.

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

Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.

Against the censurers of brevity. – Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not...

One in three all friends are:Brothers in distress,equals facing rivals,free men – facing death!

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed.

Sleep knocks on my eyes: they grow heavy. Sleep touches my mouth: it stays open.Truly, he comes to me on soft soles, the dearest of thieves, and steals my thoughts from me

But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or their opposites: it is neither perfect nor beautiful nor noble, and has no...

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is...

A veces contemplo la esencia de la vida de una manera tan profunda que de repente miro a mi alrededor y veo que nadie me acompaña, que mi único compañero es el tiempo…

Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all Gods and backworlds.

dari sekolah militer kehidupan: apa yang tidak membunuhku membuatku kuat

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

You tell me: ‘Life is hard to bear.’ But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?Life is hard to bear: but do not...

Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art – panem et Circen.

Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy...

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up...

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

Youth’s longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,Have aged and lost our old affinity:One has to change to stay akin to me.

Love, too, has to be learned.

…inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! … He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus – you have to react, you follow every impulse.

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

Gratitude pours forth continually, as if the unexpected had just happened—the gratitude of a convalescent—for convalescence was unexpected…. The rejoicing of strength that is returning, of a reawakened faith in a tomorrow and the day...

Morality negates life.

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in...

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.

And how does one basically recognize good development? In that a well-developed man does our senses good: that he is carved from wood which is hard, delicate, and sweet-smelling, all at the same time.

kalau diinjak cacing akan bergelung. ini cerdik. dengan demikian berkurangnya peluang diinjak lagi. dalam bahasa moral: tahu diri

Visiting the sick’ is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor’s helplessness

In the end things must be as they are and have always been–the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up...

Plato was a bore.

Ich lehre euch den Übermenschen. Der Mensch ist Etwas, das überwunden werden soll. Was habt ihr gethan, ihn zu überwinden? Was ist der Affe für en Menschen? Ein Gelächter oder eine schmerzliche Scham. Und ebendas...

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of...

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown...