We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.
Friedrich NietzscheHow can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
Friedrich NietzscheLoving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.
Friedrich NietzscheIndustriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.
Friedrich NietzscheOne does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.
Friedrich NietzscheThe secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!
Friedrich Nietzsche