Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad?… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority--… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food,… — 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
“God is dead;1 but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the… — 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
Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. — 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
'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men'… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing...… — 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
