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“My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book The Will to Power

“Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Life is that which must overcome itself again and again”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman--a rope over an abyss.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

“Women are considered profound. Why? Because we never fathom their depths. But women aren't even shallow.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols

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

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

“You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book The Birth of Tragedy

“Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Was that life? Well then, once more!”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols

“Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols