Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology. ” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder; the coldness increases, responsibility increases. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“... all life rests on appearance, art, illusion, optics, the need for perspective and for error...” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It was only Christianity, with resentment against life in its foundations, which made sexuality something impure: it threw filth on the beginning,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The man looked up distrustfully. "If you speak the truth," said he, "I lose nothing when I lose my life. I am… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus one should learn… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The greatest weight.71— What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Without the errors which are active in every psychical pleasure and displeasrue a humanity would never have come into existence--whose fundamental feeling… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“they would be astonished to discover the seriously German problem that we are dealing with, a vortex and a turning-point at the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Error regarding life necessary to life. - Every belief in the value and dignity of life rests on false thinking; it is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Weakness is in demand—why?... mostly because people cannot be anything else than weak. Weakening considered a duty: The weakening of the desires,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To the man of science, on his unassuming and laborious travels, which must often enough be journeys through the desert, there appear… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Was that - life?" I will say to death. "Very well! Once more!” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit.” — 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
