“There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“As the bones, flesh, entrails and blood vessels are enclosed by a skin that renders the aspect of men endurable, so the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In the philosopher, conversely, there is nothing whatever that is impersonal;7 and above all, his morality bears decided and decisive witness to… — 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
“Take care, ye philosophers and friends of knowledge, and beware of martyrdom! Of suffering "for the truth's sake"! even in your own… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Plato has given to all posterity the model of a new art form, the model of the novel --which may be described… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Another thing is war. I am naturally warlike. Attacking is one of my instincts. Being able to be an enemy, being an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Amor fati: this is the very core of my being—And as to my prolonged illness, do I not owe much more to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that there is everywhere an attempt at present to divert attention from the actual influence which Kant exercised… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that an “impulse to knowledge” is the father of philosophy; but that another impulse, here as elsewhere, has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of… — 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
So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The Olympian vice.--In defiance of that philosopher who as true Englishman tried to give any thinking person's laughter a bad reputation ('Laughter… — 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
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
Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to… — 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
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the… — 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
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