Quotes by

Friedrich Nietzsche

A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. – Friedrich Nietzsche

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. – Friedrich Nietzsche

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate,” which is in fact your life. – Friedrich Nietzsche

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. – Friedrich Nietzsche

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? – Friedrich Nietzsche

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. – Friedrich Nietzsche

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. – Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche