Emotions and Feelings

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

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

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.

To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

I'll give you my phone number. When you worried, call me! I make you happy.

I'll give you my phone number. When you worried, call me! I make you happy.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time…

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time…