Friedrich Nietzsche

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

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

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?