The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it -… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free… — 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
Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and… — 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