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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.
What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.
Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.
A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.
you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.
...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.
We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.
The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .
Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.
Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.
What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.
A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.
He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!
Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.
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.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!