Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
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.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.It is no easy task to understand unfamiliar blood; I hate the r...
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...
Wherever I found a living creature there I found the will to power.
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the ru)e.
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;...
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence.
Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.
All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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...
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
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 tor...