“People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is… — 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
Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of… — 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
