Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“He who does not find greatness in God finds it nowhere. He must either deny it or create it.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The man who is to be great is the one who can be the most solitary, the most hidden, the most deviant,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You are treading your path of greatness: now it must call up all your courage that there is no longer a path… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce Great Men --this and nothing else is its duty” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential… — 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
