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“A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: The Gay Science

“Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil

Variant: Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
Source: Beyond Good and Evil

“In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

II.293, maxim 358 http://books.google.kz/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&amp;pg=PA293&amp;dq=%22In+the+mountains+of+truth+you+will+never+climb+in+vain%22&amp;hl=en <br class="br">Human, All Too Human (1878)

“We do not believe in any right that is not supported by the power of enforcement”

Friedrich Nietzsche book The Will to Power

Sec. 120 (Spring-Fall 1887)
The Will to Power (1888)
Context: More natural is our position in politics: We see problems of power, of one quantum of power against another. We do not believe in any right that is not supported by the power of enforcement: we feel all rights to be conquests.

“What does man actually know about himself?”

Friedrich Nietzsche

On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)
Context: What does man actually know about himself? Is he, indeed, ever able to perceive himself completely, as if laid out in a lighted display case? Does nature not conceal most things from him — even concerning his own body — in order to confine and lock him within a proud, deceptive consciousness, aloof from the coils of the bowels, the rapid flow of the blood stream, and the intricate quivering of the fibers! She threw away the key.

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Variant: I would only believe in a god who could dance.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, simpler.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sec. 179
The Gay Science (1882)

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”

Friedrich Nietzsche Untimely Meditations

Niemand kann dir die Brücke bauen, auf der gerade du über den Fluß des Lebens schreiten mußt, niemand außer dir allein.
“Schopenhauer as educator,” § 3.1, R. Hollingdale, trans. (1983), p. 129
Untimely Meditations (1876)

“The knight of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Ecce homo

Der Mensch der Erkenntniss muss nicht nur seine Feinde lieben, er muss auch seine Freunde hassen können.
Foreword, in the Oscar Levy authorized translation.
Variant translations:
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Ecce Homo (1888)

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Notebooks (Summer 1886 – Fall 1887)
Variant translation: Against that positivism which stops before phenomena, saying "there are only facts," I should say: no, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations…
As translated in The Portable Nietzsche (1954) by Walter Kaufmann, p. 458