He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Virtue has come to consist of doing something in less time than someone else” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Association with other people corrupts our character; especially when we have none.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We are alien to each other, and their virtues are even more repugnant to my taste than their falsehoods and false dice.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The feelings of devotion, self-sacrifice for one's neighbor, the whole morality of self-denial must be questioned mercilessly and taken to court… There… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I pass through this people and keep mine eyes open: they do not forgive me for do not envying their virtues. They… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When your heart flows broad and full like a river, a blessing and a danger to those living near: there is the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“today we read of Don Quixote with a bitter taste in the mouth, it is almost an ordeal, which would make us… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
