Friedrich Nietzsche

"I love the valiant; but it is not enough to yield a broadsword, one must also know against whom. And often there is more valor when one refrains and passes by, in order to save onesself for the worthier enemy".

"Not the height but the precipice is terrible"

"New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn souls. In solitude, whatever one has brought into it grows--also the inner beast".

"The voice of beauty speaks gently; it creeps only into the most awakened souls"

"Whoever does not want to die of thirst among men must learn to drink out of all cups.

"Verily, I like them not, the merciful ones, whose bliss is in their pity: too destitute are they of bashfulness...Thus do I speak unto you in parable, ye who make the soul giddy, ye preachers of equality! Tarantulas are ye unto me, and secretly revengeful ones!.. "Let it be very justice for the world to become full of the storms of our vengeance"- thus do they talk to one another... "Vengeance will we use, and insult, against all who are not like us"- thus do the tarantula-hearts pledge themselves".

"Ye preachers of equality, the tyrant-frenzy of impotence crieth thus in you for "equality": your most secret tyrant-longings disguise themselves thus in virtue-words!"

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster and when you look into the abyss, the abyss looks into you."

"And 'Will to Equality'- that itself shall henceforth be the name of virtue; and against all that hath power will we raise an outcry!"

Most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

There are no facts, only interpretations

I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

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

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

Man cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: However far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the Earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

God is dead: but considering the state the species MAN is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

My doctrive is: Live that thou mayest desire to live again -that is thy duty - for in any case thou will live again.

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