Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

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

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.