You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you nonetheless tell the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Your educators can only be your liberators.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this-although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening? Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so tender! We are all of us pretty fine asses and assess of burden!

— Friedrich Nietzsche