We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make… — 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
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
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