“Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any realized joy could be. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Wherever life and knowledge seemed to contradict each other, there was never any serious struggle: in such cases, denial and doubt amounted… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The visible action is not the self-manifestation of the inward life, but only a weak and crude attempt of a single thread… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Man permits himself to be lied to at night, his life long, when he dreams, and his moral sense never even tries… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It seems, however, to be otherwise with stronger and livelier thinkers who are still eager for life. In that they side against… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood: how shortsighted that is! As though we would… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The free spirit again draws near to life - slowly, to be sure, almost reluctantly, almost mistrustfully. It again grows warmer about… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One must learn to love.— This is what happens to us in music: first one has to learn to hear a figure… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“the bowels of existence do not speak unto man, except as man.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. — 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
