It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Man has to believe, to know, from time to time why he exists; his race cannot flourish without a periodic trust in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! — FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Copy Share Image
Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of life cannot be estimated.” — 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
Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is an eternal phenomenon: the insatiable will always finds a way to detain its creatures in life and compel them to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is the sign of every literary decadence ? That life no longer dwells in the whole. The word becomes sovereign and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The greatest weight.-- What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Now, most people bear life without any considerable grumbling, and consequently believe in the value of existence, but precisely because each one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Imagine a being like nature, wasteful beyond measure, indifferent beyond measure, without mercy and justice, fertile and desolate and uncertain at the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every philosophy which believes that the problem of existence is touched on, not to say solved, by a political event is a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The least step forward in the domain of free thought and individual life has been achieved in all ages to the accompaniment… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great epochs of our life are at the points when we gain courage to rebaptize our badness as the best in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This secret spoke Life herself unto me: Behold, said she, I am that which must ever surpass itself. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you… — 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