The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage...
I obviously do everything to be hard to understand myself
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the ru)e.
Either you reach a higher point today or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.
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;...
Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.
Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific pu...
If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved
What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved
A thinking man never be a party man.
All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down.
Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for in...
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine servic...