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“Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

Mancher wird nur deshalb kein Denker, weil sein Gedächtnis zu gut ist.
II.122
Human, All Too Human (1878)

“There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

Source: Human, All Too Human

“They're so cold, these scholars!
May lightning strike their food
so that their mouths learn how
to eat fire!”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“The overman… Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Success has always been a great liar”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols

Source: Twilight of the Idols

“Belief means not wanting to know what is true.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book The Antichrist

Sec. 52
The Antichrist (1888)
Variant: Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.

“In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil

Source: Beyond Good and Evil

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil

Source: Beyond Good and Evil

“To find everything profound — that is an inconvenient trait.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sec. 158
The Gay Science (1882)
Context: To find everything profound — that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

“Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

I.332 http://books.google.com/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&amp;pg=PA139&amp;dq=:%22Arrogance+on+the+part+of+the+meritorious+is+even+more+offensive+to+us%22&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=7HFTTKGJOcmhnQfSrsXJAw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=%3A%22Arrogance%20on%20the%20part%20of%20the%20meritorious%20is%20even%20more%20offensive%20to%20us%22&amp;f=false <br class="br">Human, All Too Human (1878)

“Morality is herd instinct in the individual.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sec. 116
The Gay Science (1882)

“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols

Sect. 38
Source: Twilight of the Idols (1888)

“A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil

Generally attributed to Nietzsche, this is a quotation from Curtis Cate's Friedrich Nietzsche: A Biography (2003) and is the author's interpretation of Nietzsche's Aphorism 221 (Beyond Good and Evil)
Misattributed