Life and Existence

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

Woman was God's second mistake.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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