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“Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

I.475
Human, All Too Human (1878)
Context: Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.

“Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“All idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Ecce homo

Source: Ecce Homo, chapter Why I Am So Clever

“What does not kill him, makes him stronger.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Ecce homo

… was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker
"Why I Am So Wise", 2
Cf. Twilight of the Idols (1888), "Maxims and Arrows", aphorism 8: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Ecce Homo (1888)

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil

Variant: One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Source: Beyond Good and Evil

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Variant: Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

“We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

I.303 http://books.google.com/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&amp;q=&amp;quot;we+often+contradict+an+opinion+for+no+other+reason+than+that+we+do+not+like+the+tone+in+which+it+is+expressed&amp;quot;&amp;pg=PA137#v=onepage <br class="br">Human, All Too Human (1878)

“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you ambush yourself in caverns and forests.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The Way of the Creator.
Context: But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you ambush yourself in caverns and forests. You solitary one, you go the way to yourself! And your way leads you past yourself and your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself, and a sorcerer and a soothsayer, and a fool, and a doubter, and a reprobate, and a villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes!

“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years”

Friedrich Nietzsche book The Antichrist

it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere...
Sec. 34
The Antichrist (1888)

“I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

As quoted in &quot;Idea of Anti-Semitism Filled Nietzsche With Ire and Melancholy&quot; in The New York Times (19 December 1987) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE0D91E3EF93AA25751C1A961948260

“Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal,  and yet if  a melody has not  reached its end, it has not reached its goal.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Variant: The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

“The earth is free even now for great souls. There are still empty seats for the lonesome and the twosome, fanned by the fragrance of silent seas. A free life is still free for great souls. Do you not see it, the rainbow and the bridges. Thus spoke Zarathustra.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus spoke Zarathustra

“Mais comment pouvons-nous nous retrouver nous-mêmes? Comment l'homme peut-il se connaître? Ce sont là des questions difficiles à résoudre. Si le lièvre a sept peaux, l'homme peut s'en enlever sept fois septante sans qu'il puisse dire ensuite: «Cela est maintenant véritablement toi, ce n'est plus seulement une enveloppe.» De plus, c'est là un geste cruel et dangereux que de fouiller ainsi soi-même sa chair pour descendre brutalement, par le plus court chemin, dans le fond de son être. Comme il arrive facilement qu'on se blesse, sans qu'aucun médecin puisse nous guérir! A quoi cela servirait-il, en outre, si tout témoigne de notre être, nos amitiés et nos inimitiés, notre regard et nos serrements de mains, notre mémoire et ce que nous oublions, nos livres et les traits de notre plume?”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Considérations Inactuelles III