Quotes

It is in our wild nature that we best recover from our un-nature, our spirituality.

What doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger!

The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.

They vomit their gall and call it a newspaper.

Weariness, which seeks to get to the ultimate with one leap, with one death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all gods and afterworlds.

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just the same shall be man to the Übermensch: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

How many things are now called the worst evil, which are only twelve feet wide and three months long! But some day greater dragons will come into the world.

There is no devil and no hell. Your soul will be dead even sooner than your body: fear nothing further.

Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!

How charming it is that there are words and sounds: are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things eternally separated?

Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

It is the stillest words that bring the storm.

Sex: a sweet poison only to the withered, but to the lion-willed the great cordial and the reverently reserved wine of wines.

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

And life itself spoke this secret to me. "Behold," it said, "I am that which must ever overcome itself."

Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage--his name is self.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many almost a vice. These people abstain, to be sure: but the bitch Sensuality leers enviously out of all that they do. This restless beast follows them even into the heights of their virtue and into the depths of their cold spirit.

Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.

It is the good war that hallows every cause.