Man has been reared by his errors: first he never saw himself other than imperfectly, second he attributed to himself imaginary qualities, third he felt himself in a false order of rank with animal and...

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

Faith is always coveted most and needed most urgently where will is lacking; for will, as the affect of command, is the decisive sign of sovereignty and strength. In other words, the less one knows...

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and the buzzing of the poison-flies.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

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?

perempuan dianggap dalam. kenapa? karena orang tidak akan menemukan dasar pada mereka. perempuan bahkan tidak dangkal

Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!

He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth – and not even as a...

I am one thing, my writings are another.

Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit’s judgment: “There is something arbitrary in his stopping here to look back and look around, in his not digging deeper here but laying his...

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people for each other gives way to a new desire and greed, a shared...

The Christian church is an encyclopaedia of prehistoric cults and conceptions of the most diverse orgiin and that is why it is so capable of proselytising: it always could and it can still go wherever...

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

One loves ultimately one’s desires, not the thing desired.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

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

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

One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single point, like a goddess of victory, without fear or giddiness, will never know...

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...

cinta mengungkapkan kualitaskualitas besar dan tersembunyi dari pencintanya–apa yang langka dan merupakan perkecualian dari dirinya: dalam artian bahwa cinta menyembunyikan apa yang biasabiasa saja

There are no facts, only interpretations.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.

Man is the cruelest animal.

Association with other people corrupts our character; especially when we have none.

A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.

There are many good inventions on earth, some useful, some pleasing: for their sake, the earth is to be loved. And there is such a variety of well-invented things that the earth is like the...

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...

tingkat dan sifat seksualitas seseorang meluas sampai puncak semangatnya

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.

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin,...

Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.

People have always wanted to ‘improve’ human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.

…throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.

I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men...

Women are still cats and birds. Or at the best, cows.

Still am I the richest and most to be envied – I, the lonesomest one!

My genius is in my nostrils.