Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.
If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed .
The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this ’voluptuousness of hell.
We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner.
The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.
Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?
But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.
If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.
Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.