"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on purpose
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"He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on reason
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"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on religion
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"You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on resentment
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"He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on self-control
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"Great intellects are skeptical."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on skepticism
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"The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on sports
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"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on strategies
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"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."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on style   

"Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on beggars
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"The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on books - reading   

"Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on books - reading   

"Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on bores and boredom   

"Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on bores and boredom
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"Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on science