Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. – Friedrich Nietzsche
One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. – Friedrich Nietzsche
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. – Friedrich Nietzsche
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. – Friedrich Nietzsche
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. – Friedrich Nietzsche
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. – Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‘divine service.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche
What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The word ‘Christianity’ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. – Friedrich Nietzsche
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. – Friedrich Nietzsche