Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. – Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. – Friedrich Nietzsche
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. – Friedrich Nietzsche
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. – Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. – Friedrich Nietzsche
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever has witnessed another’s ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. – Friedrich Nietzsche
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. – Friedrich Nietzsche
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. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? – Friedrich Nietzsche
To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. – Friedrich Nietzsche
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god? – Friedrich Nietzsche