Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I wasn't sure what day it was because life is meaningless. Turns out it's Thursday. The thing about life still applies. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One of the subtlest means of deceiving, at least as long as possible, and of successfully representing oneself to be stupider than… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Pity preserves things that are ripe for decline, it defends things that have been disowned and condemned by life, and it gives… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The Thought of Death. It gives me a melancholy happiness to live in the midst of this confusion of streets, of necessities,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The state, I call it, where all are poison-drinkers, the good and the bad: the state, where all lose themselves, the good… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The whole attitude of 'man against the world', of man as a 'world-negating' principle, of a man as the measure of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“That immense framework and planking of concepts to which the needy man clings his whole life long in order to preserve himself… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Whoever looks into himself as into vast space and carries galaxies in himself, also knows how irregular all galaxies are; they lead… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Short-sighted people are amorous. Sometimes just a stronger pair of glasses will cure an amorous man; and if someone had the power… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Life no argument. - We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“He enters a labyrinth, he multiplies by a thousand the dangers already inherent in the very act of living, not the least… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Creation-that is the great redemption from suffering, and life's growing light. But that the creator may be, much suffering is needed and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“...For action has no sense. It merely binds one to existence. All existence, however, has no sense. Evil is interpreted as that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“He, on the other hand, who really could sympathize therewith, would have to despair of the value of life; were he to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“TO RECOGNISE UNTRUTH AS A CONDITION OF LIFE; that is certainly to impugn the traditional ideas of value in a dangerous manner,… — 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
