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
We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill… — 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
If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . .… — 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
