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.

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

Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.

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

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

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.

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

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

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

Without music, life would be a mistake.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

The overman…Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life’s terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

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

kesombongan kita paling tahan terhadap rasa sakit saat diri kita terluka

ketidaksukaan pada yang kotor dapat menjadi sedemikian besar sehingga hal itu akan mencegah kita membersihkan diri

dari sekolah militer kehidupan: apa yang tidak membunuhku membuatku kuat

perempuan belajar membenci dengan cara yang sama saat mereka–belajar melupakan cara memperdaya

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

O my brothers, I dedicate and direct you to a new nobility: you shall become procreators and cultivators and sowers of the future — verily, not to a nobility that you might buy like shopkeepers and with shopkeepers’ gold: for whatever has its price has little value. Not whence you came shall henceforth constitute your...

Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every...

Todo el que disfruta cree que lo que importa del árbol es el fruto, cuando en realidad es la semilla.He aquí la diferencia entre los que creen y los que disfrutan.

When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure – as a mere automaton of duty?

One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa– blessing it rather than in love with it.

The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce…

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.

Water is sufficient…the spirit moves over water.

Success has always been the greatest liar – and the “work” itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the “work,” whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; “great men,”...

Every past is worth condemning.

Die Sinnlichkeit übereilt oft das Wachsthum der Liebe, so dass die Wurzel schwach bleibt und leicht auszureissen ist.

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it, even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring beyond measure. He enters into a labyrinth, he multiplies a...

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I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,if there were not a friend?The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that’s how you learn to love! That’s why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love.

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

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

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

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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 hath spirit in it!

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.