Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I do not give alms I am not poor enough for that.

Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we kill. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

The formula for my happiness a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

I should account as the foremost musician one who knew only the sadness of the most profound happiness, and no other sadness at all.

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.

Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there

What you want is fameThen note the priceAll claimTo honor you must sacrifice.

The great lie about immortality destroys every kind of reason, every kind of naturalness in the instincts.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. . . .

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

There is no knowledge of true being. The world is fundamentally in a state of becoming.

He who laughs best to-day, will also laugh last.

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

''Reason'' is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

What is wanted -- whether this is admitted or not -- is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war I say unto you it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy he guards against them.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

What do you regard as most humane To spare someone shame.