Petikan oleh Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There are no egoistic or un egoistic actions: both concepts are psychological absurdities.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

The man has to believe, to know, from time to time why he exists; his race cannot flourish without a periodic trust in life – without faith in reason in life.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by the decline in bile.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Human existence basically is a never to be completed imperfect tense.

Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

Humanity is still much more a means than an end. It is the type: The human race is merely the test material, the vast excess of failure, a debris field.

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have a little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

In disrespecting, we show that we still maintain a sense of respect.

No artist tolerates reality.

No better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Every habit makes our hand wittier, and outwit handier.