He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Self-esteem]

''Reason'' is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Senses]

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Sincerity]

Great intellects are skeptical.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Skepticism]

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Speakers and Speaking]

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Spirit and Spirituality]

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Spirit and Spirituality]

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Sports]

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Strategies]

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Strength]

As regards the celebrated ''struggle for life,'' it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Struggle]

''To give style'' to one's character -- a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Style]

Success has always been a great liar.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Success]

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Suffering]

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Suicide]

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Suicide]

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Taste]

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Technology]

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Thoughts and Thinking]

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Thoughts and Thinking]