Quotes to inspire and reflect

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

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

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

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

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

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

The doer alone learneth.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

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

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?

It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.

Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?

When thou goest to woman take thy whip.

Belief in form but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.

Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.

When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.

Great intellects are skeptical.

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

Wherever I found a living creature there I found the will to power.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man but for this to endure it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.

The lie is a condition of life.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair but to he who does not concern us at all.

The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.