Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness is the feeling that power increases – that resistance is being overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who cannot command himself shall obey. And many a man can command himself, but much is still lacking before he can also obey himself!

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am one thing, my writings are another.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is only those who know how to feel that ‘this is not good’ who devise improvements.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

Friedrich Nietzsche