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1 " It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche
2 " The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. "
3 " One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. "
4 " Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life. "
5 " Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love. "
6 " Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not. "
7 " The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity. "
8 " Love, too, has to be learned. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , The Gay Science
9 " What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine. "
10 " Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? "
11 " 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. "
12 " 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 , Beyond Good and Evil
13 " He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness. "
14 " Without music, life would be a mistake. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols
15 " The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , Thus Spoke Zarathustra
16 " 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? "
17 " Convictions are prisons. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , The Birth of Tragedy/Seventy-five Aphorisms/The Anti-Christ
18 " To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , The Will to Power
19 " 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. "
20 " It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! "
