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.

It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds – this, and that brief madness of bliss which is experienced only by those who suffer deeply. Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one...

The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and overwhelming, that an assumed stupidity is his only refuge.

The bite of conscience is indecent.

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...

The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you.

Even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

untuk hidup sendirian, orang harus menjadi binatang atau dewa–kata Aristoteles. ada yang ketiga: orang harus menjadi keduanya, yaitu seorang filsuf

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nothing is needed more than truth, and in relation to it everything else has only second-rate value.”This unconditional will to truth—what is it? Is it the will not to allow oneself to be deceived? Or...

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom...

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

It is always as it was between Achilles and Homer: one person has the experience, the sensation, the other describes it. A real writer only gives words to the affects and experiences of others; he...

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion of what one is… The whole surface of consciousness – for consciousness -is- a surface – must be kept clear of all great...

The Great Man… is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of ‘opinion’; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and ‘respectability,’ and altogether everything that is the ‘virtue of the herd.’ If he cannot...

Solitude has seven skins; nothing gets through any more.

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth…. Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations,...

Comment l’Histoire pourrait-elle mieux servir la vie qu’en attachant à leur patrie et aux coutumes de leur patrie les races et les peuples moins favorisés, en leur donnant des goûts sédentaires, ce qui les empêche...

Art is the proper task of life.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Excess of strength alone is proof of strength

All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down.

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them their prescriptions for making life easier — their Christianity, for example.

The sum of the inner movements which a man finds easy and as a consequence performs gracefully and with pleasure, one calls his soul; if these inner movements are plainly difficult and an effort for...