Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Without music life would be a mistake.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.
What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
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.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
I tell you: one must still have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star.
In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments.
You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?

Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.
Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?
Faith means not wanting to know what is true.
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
