A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.
Friedrich NietzscheMan is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.
Friedrich NietzscheAt the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.
Friedrich NietzscheWithout art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.
Friedrich NietzscheOne often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
Friedrich NietzscheA good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.
Friedrich Nietzsche