10 quotes
What does not kill him, makes him stronger.
Ecce Homo (1888)
In proportion as an ideal world has been falsely assumed, reality has been robbed of its value, its meaning, and its truthfulness.
Ecce Homo (1908)
Man prefers to aspire to nonentity than to not aspire at all.
Ecce Homo (1908)
How much truth can a certain mind endure, how much truth can it dare? These questions became for me ever more and more the actual test of values.
Ecce Homo (1908)
He who is related to me through loftiness of will experiences genuine raptures of understanding in my books.
Ecce Homo (1908)
Feminism, whether in mankind or man, is likewise a barrier to my writings; with it, no one could ever enter into this labyrinth of fearless knowledge.
Ecce Homo (1908)
My formula for the greatness of a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different—not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely to bear what is necessary, still less conceal it … but love it.
Ecce Homo (1908)
Christianity ... is neither Apollonian nor Dionysian. It denies all aesthetic values, which are the only values that The Birth of Tragedy recognizes.
Ecce Homo (1908)
Psychology is almost the standard of measurement for the cleanliness or uncleanliness of a race. ... That which is called “deep” in Germany is precisely this uncleanliness towards oneself. ... People refuse to be clear in regard to their own natures.
Ecce Homo (1908)
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.
Ecce Homo (1908)