Zitate von Friedrich Nietzsche über Leben und Liebe

Today everybody permits himself the expression of his wish and his dearest thought

Some cannot loosen their own chains and can nonetheless redeem their friends.

The reality is a flux, an endless becoming that is beyond words and language - all language is the metaphor, useful to us but ultimately detached from reality.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it -- what it costs us.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

You shall love beyond yourselves some day! So first, learn to love. And for that, you have to drink the bitter cup of your love.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

The man is the most bungled of all the animals, the sickliest, and not one has strayed more dangerously from its instincts. But for all that, of course, he is the most interesting.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

We must now and then be joyful in our folly, that we may continue to be joyful in our wisdom

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Pain is not seen as an objection to life

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

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.