Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

Love is not consolation.  It is light.

    What is the greatest experience you can have? It is the hour of the great contempt. The hour when your happiness, too, arouses your disgust, and even your reason and your virtue.
    The hour when you say, 'What matters my happiness? It is poverty and filth and wretched contentment. But my happiness ought to justify existence itself.'
    The hour when you say, 'What matters my reason? Does it crave knowledge as the lion his food? It is poverty and filth and wretched contentment.'
    The hour when you say, 'What matters my virtue? As yet it has not made me rage. How weary I am of my good and my evil! All that is poverty and filth and wretched contentment.'

The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance with such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."