In no particular order here are some Nietzche quotes I find interesting, Mostly from Beyond Good and Evil and Human All Too Human.
- What? A great man? I always see merely the play-actor of his own ideal
- A sign of strong character, when once the resolution has been taken, to shut the ear even to the best counter-arguments. Occasionally, therefore, a will to stupidity. (later he mentions how a free spirit finds resolution difficult for the same reason)
- You want to prepossess him in your favour? Then you must be embarrassed before him.
- Sensuality often forces the growth of love too much, so that its root remains weak, and is easily torn up. (everything sentence in Beyond Good and Evil is a giant mirror, this one especially)
- One is punished best for one's virtues. (very painful!! gives you an inner smile)
- Insanity in individuals is something rare--but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
- Poets act shamelessly towards their experiences: they exploit them. (especially artists unlike Bresson, Bach, Tolstoy, Leonardo. Tarkovsky says there is an effortlessness to their art. Something he fears. I guess I agree, I can't prevent the giddyness of a good idea from poisoning/distorting itself)
- One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
- "I dislike him."--Why?--"I am not a match for him."--Did any one ever answer so? ¯_(ツ)_/¯