Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.

The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge - a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare? That became for me the real measure of value.

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.