“O Solitude! You are my home, Solitude!”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“O Solitude! You are my home, Solitude!”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“What strange, perplexing, questionable questions!”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche book The Antichrist
This has commonly been paraphrased: The last Christian died on the cross.
Sec. 39
The Antichrist (1888)
“Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
... die Hoffnung: sie ist in Wahrheit das übelste der Übel, weil sie die Qual der Menschen verlängert.
I.71
Variant: Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Source: Human, All Too Human (1878)
“Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols
Letter to Elisabeth Nietzsche, Bonn, 1865-06-11. Quoted in Walter Kaufmann, The Faith of a Heretic (opening epigram).
Variant: Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.
Source: Twilight of the Idols
“i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.”
On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo
“it is only as anthat existence and the world are eternally.”
Source: The Birth of Tragedy/The Case of Wagner