Excerpts from other works by Nietzsche

 　　1. Even if life is a tragedy, we should perform it vividly and colorfully, without losing its magnificence and solace; even if life is a dream, we should dream it with relish, without losing its charm and pleasure.

　　—Nietzsche, *The Birth of Tragedy*

　　2. King Midas searched for Dionysus's companion in the forest for a long time, but the clever Silenus could not find him. When he finally fell into the king's hands, the king asked: "What is the best and most wonderful thing for man?" The spirit stood blankly, without uttering a sound. Until finally, under the king's coercion, he suddenly let out a piercing laugh and said: "Poor life, child of impermanence and suffering, why do you force me to say what you'd better not hear? The best thing is that you can never have it, that is not to be born, not to exist, to become nothingness. But for you there is a second-best thing—to die immediately."
　　—Nietzsche, *The Birth of Tragedy*

　　3. As long as everything around us is enduring and creating suffering, we cannot be happy. We cannot be noble as long as the progress of human affairs depends on violence, deceit, and injustice. We cannot be wise as long as all humanity does not engage in an intellectual contest, guiding individual life and the pursuit of knowledge in the wisest way.
　　—Nietzsche, *The Birth of Tragedy*

　　4. Art is the highest mission of life and its inherent metaphysical activity
　　. —Nietzsche

　　, *The Birth of Tragedy* 5. Art is not an imitation of nature, but its metaphysical supplement; it rises beside nature in order to transcend it.
　　—Nietzsche, *The Birth of Tragedy*
　　6. O mortals, have you fallen in awe? O universe, have you sensed the Creator?
　　—Nietzsche, *The Birth of Tragedy*
　　7. A philosophy or a religion that gives people happiness and comfort cannot prove its truth in the slightest, just as a madman's happiness from his fixed ideas cannot prove the rationality of those ideas.
　　—Nietzsche, *The Birth of Tragedy*
　　8. Everyone is a complete artist in creating dreams, and the beautiful appearance of dreams is the premise of all visual arts.
　　—Nietzsche, *The Birth of Tragedy*
　　9. The essential aspect of art always lies in its ability to complete existence.
　　—Nietzsche, *The Birth of Tragedy*

　　10. Living contradictions.
　　—Nietzsche, *The Birth of Tragedy*
　　(Apollo and Dionysus)
　　11. What does your conscience say? —You must become yourself.
　　—Nietzsche, *The Gay Science*
　　12. What is the guarantee of freedom? It is no longer feeling ashamed of oneself. —Nietzsche, *The Gay Science*

　　13. When we are brave, we do not think so; we do not consider ourselves brave at all.
　　—Nietzsche, *The Gay Science*
　　14. God is dead! God is dead! And we have murdered him! How can we comfort ourselves, murderers among murderers? —Nietzsche, *The Gay Science*
　　15. What makes a hero? The ability to simultaneously face the deepest suffering and the greatest hope.
　　—Nietzsche, *The Gay Science*
　　16. Never become arrogant, or a small thorn can pierce you!
　　—Nietzsche, *The Gay Science*

　　17. Mathematics is the deepest art of the mind.
　　—Nietzsche
　　, *The Gay Science* 18. A bound mind, a free spirit—when a person tightly binds and imprisons his own mind, he allows his thoughts to enjoy much freedom; I have said this before. But people will not believe me unless they have experienced it firsthand.
　　—Nietzsche, *Beyond Good and Evil*

　　19. To die of thirst at sea is terrible. If the value of truth is overstated, truth ceases to quench thirst. Is it necessary to do so?
　　—Nietzsche, *Beyond Good and Evil*
　　20. Things that can be shared are always of little value.
　　—Nietzsche, *Beyond Good and Evil*
　　21.
　　A noble soul is one that has reverence for itself.
　　—Nietzsche, *Beyond Good and Evil*

　　22. Those who often talk about themselves are often just trying to hide themselves.
　　—Nietzsche, *Beyond Good and Evil*

　　23. Ultimately, man loves his own desires, not what he wants!
　　—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
　　, *Beyond Good and Evil* 24. What does not destroy me makes me stronger.
　　—Nietzsche, *Beyond Good and Evil*
　　25. Great men mean nothing to me; I only admire the stars of my own ideals.
　　26. To love only one person is a barbaric act, because others are sacrificed for it. The same is true of love for God.
　　—Nietzsche, *Beyond Good and Evil*
　　27. Those who are unwilling to see the strengths of others always see their own shortcomings at a glance.
　　—Nietzsche, *Beyond Good and Evil*
　　28. Important things should be said three times.
　　—Nietzsche, *Beyond Good and Evil*
　　29. "I did it," my memory says. "How could I have done such a thing?" my pride says, and insists on not yielding. In the end, memory yields.
　　—Nietzsche, *Beyond Good and Evil*

　　29. What we do when we are awake and when we are dreaming is the same: we merely fabricate and imagine the people we associate with—and then immediately forget them.
　　—Nietzsche, *Beyond Good and Evil*

　　30. In individuals, madness is a rare thing, but in groups, parties, crowds, and eras, it is the norm. "Perhaps, such madness, the madness of a fanatic, only becomes so shocking when magnified or highlighted, like a human nightmare.
　　— Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

　　31. 'He who fights monsters,
　　lest he become a monster
　　; and he who gazes into the abyss, when he looks into the abyss
　　, the abyss gazes also into you.
　　' — Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
　　32. It despises everything, yet it can grasp everything; it overturns everything, yet it also possesses everything; it does not believe in everything, yet it does not lose itself because of it; it breeds a dangerous spirit of freedom, yet it firmly guards the soul."
　　33. The characteristic of this era is—division—this era no longer has a sense of reality. People can no longer find the confidence to stand in this world. Everyone lives in tomorrow, yet these people no longer have a tomorrow.
　　—Nietzsche, *The Will to Power*

　　34. Only when the gaze is dull and hope becomes simple will beautiful and valuable things appear: perhaps this is always the case.
　　—Nietzsche, *The Will to Power*

　　35. The "real world," no matter how people previously imagined it—is still the superficial world
　　. —Nietzsche, *The Will to Power*

　　36. Respecting your own incompetence gives you the power to change reality. Never belittle yourself. That is tantamount to binding your actions and thoughts. Everything begins with respecting yourself. Respect your inexperience, respect your lack of achievement, treat yourself as a person. As long as you respect yourself, you will be unable to do evil, unable to commit contemptuous acts unworthy of being human. Changing your way of life can bring you closer to your ideals and make you a role model for others. This can expand your possibilities and give you the power to turn them into reality. To live a fulfilling life, first and foremost, respect yourself.
　　—Nietzsche, *The Will to Power*

　　37. The share of power commensurate with your status determines your rank; the rest are cowards.
　　—Nietzsche, *The Will to Power*

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