xy

“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.”

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

“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”

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

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book — what everyone else does not say in a whole book.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols

“Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book The Antichrist

“… throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.”

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

“True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.”

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

“If you know the why, you can live any how.”

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

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

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

“Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.”

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

“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”

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

“And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.”

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

“the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls”

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

“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.”

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

“I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”

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

“Is not life a hundred times too short for us— to bore ourselves?”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

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

“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra