Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”

“One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.”

“O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part!”

“The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment. ”

“In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, ...”

“He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final go...”

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

“No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.”

“Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.”

“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?”

“Convictions are prisons.”

“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignitiesI wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the t...”

“Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.”

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”

“How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain”

“If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory.”

“A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”