Friedrich Nietzsche | Quotes Collection

"One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power." Friedrich Nietzsche

"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." Friedrich Nietzsche

"Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood." Friedrich Nietzsche

"Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you." Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!" Friedrich Nietzsche

"Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong." Friedrich Nietzsche

"Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous." Friedrich Nietzsche

"The real question is: How much truth can I stand?" Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying." Friedrich Nietzsche

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends." Friedrich Nietzsche

"Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal." Friedrich Nietzsche

"Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical." Friedrich Nietzsche

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

"I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible." Friedrich Nietzsche