One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Category Archive: Friedrich Nietzsche
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
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.
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.