"Love, too, has to be learned.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~











More Friedrich Nietzsche quotes
"Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people for each other gives way to a new ...
"Psychology has falsified love as surrender and altruism, while it is an appropriation or a bestowal following from a super-abundance of personality. O...
"Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love.
"Zarathustra answered: “I love mankind.
"One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!
"Remain true to the earth, my brethren, with the power of your virtue! Let your bestowing love and your knowledge be devoted to be the meaning of the e...
"I love the forest.
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
"Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)
"Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?
"What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved
"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
"Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.