Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

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

"What does not destroy me, makes me strong."

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

"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow."

"The doer alone learneth."

"Plato was a bore."

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

"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."

"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity."

"People demand freedom only when they have no power."

"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either."

"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation."

"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."

"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author - and that he did not learn it better."

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

"Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?"

"Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself." - Beyond Good and Evil

"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common." - Beyond Good and Evil

"One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa: with a blessing rather than in love." - Beyond Good and Evil

"One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior." - Beyond Good and Evil

"The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity." - Beyond Good and Evil

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." - Human, All-too-Human

"Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder; the coldness increases, responsibility increases." - The Antichrist

"Believe me, the secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!" - The Joyful Wisdom (also known as The Gay Science)

"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." - The Joyful Wisdom (also known as The Gay Science)

"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." - Thus Spake Zarathustra

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books." - Twilight of the Idols