The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

Friedrich Nietzsche

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A very popular error: having the courage of one’s convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one’s convictions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fear is the mother of morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Only sick music makes money today.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Friedrich Nietzsche