“Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me.”
Variant: I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I cannot believe you.
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Maxims and Arrows, 27
Twilight of the Idols (1888)
“No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.”
Source: Human, All Too Human
Source: Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
“Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.”
Source: The Anti-Christ
“Was that life? Well then, once more!”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.”
Maxims and Arrows, 12
Variant translations:
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
As translated in Man's Search For Meaning (1946) by Viktor Frankl
Variant: He who has a Why? in life can tolerate almost any How?
Source: Twilight of the Idols (1888)
“Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
Source: Untimely Meditations
Variant translation: In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of "world history" — yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.
One might invent such a fable and still not have illustrated sufficiently how wretched, how shadowy and flighty, how aimless and arbitrary, the human intellect appears in nature. There have been eternities when it did not exist; and when it is done for again, nothing will have happened.
On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)
Context: Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world history," but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature. There were eternities during which it did not exist. And when it is all over with the human intellect, nothing will have happened.