“A time came when one rubbed one's eyes; one is still rubbing them today.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Everything straight lies,' murmured the dwarf disdainfully. 'All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Precisely the least thing, the gentlest, lightest, the rustling of a lizard, a breath, a moment, a twinkling of the eye -… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“At the moment when anyone begins to take philosophy seriously, all the world believes the opposite.” —Human, All Too Human, “Assorted Opinions… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At the moment when a man openly makes known his difference of opinion from a well-known party leader, the whole world thinks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The greatest weight.71— What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“My friends, it was hard for us when we were young: we suffered youth itself like a serious sickness. That is due… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Can you give yourself your own evil and your own good and hang your own will over yourself as a law? Can… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To redeem the past and to transform every 'It was' into an 'I wanted it thus!' – that alone do I call… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words! — 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
