Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
Energy flows where attention goes.
To get what you really want in life, you need a clear goal that has purpose and meaning behind it.
Once this is in place, you can focus your energy on the goal and become obsessive about it.
When you learn how to focus your energy, amazing things happen.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
Plato was a bore.
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
I am one thing, my writings are another.
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.
Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Art is the proper task of life.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
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.
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.
I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.
As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
I have forgotten my umbrella.
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
Belief means not wanting to know what is true.
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.
Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.
Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.
One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this
You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.
No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
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 asseses of burden!
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.
The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
Тяжело бремя жизни": не прикидывайтесь такими неженками! Все мы выносливы, как вьючьные ослы.
One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.
Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order.
One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated.
All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.
To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.
Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
The final reward of the dead - to die no more
Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought, for one would thereby dispense with man himself.
What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
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.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how thespirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.
Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!
The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.
Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.
Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.
The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play
Your educators can only be your liberators.
Excess of strength alone is proof of strength
Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.
Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.
New struggles. -- After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries -- a colossal, horrible shadow. God is dead, but given the way people are, there may still be caves for millennia in which his shadow is displayed. -- And we -- we must still defeat his shadow as well!
There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.
A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.
Success has always been the greatest liar
Valoare au doar ideile după care ai umblat.
We know so little, and have difficulty learning: so we have to lie for that reason only.
Spirit is life which itself cutteth into life: by its own torture doth it increase its own knowledge,--did ye know that before?
Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
Love, too, has to be learned.
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.
In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.
Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
