The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I have at all times written my writings with my whole heart and soul: I do not know what purely intellectual problems… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single… — 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
That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“As if it were the task of every time to be just to everything before it! Ages and generations have never the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Only great pain, the long, slow pain that takes its time... compels us to descend to our ultimate depths... I doubt that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When I look at this age with the eye of a distant future, I find nothing so remarkable in the man of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If, in all that you wish to do, you begin by asking yourself: am I certain that I would wish to do… — 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
Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Though I may seem at times somewhat distant from you, through the gray mist of philology, I am never far, my thoughts… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!" — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A small company is more welcome to me than a bad one: but they must come and go at the right time.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Man has to believe, to know, from time to time why he exists; his race cannot flourish without a periodic trust in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it… — 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
“At times, one can win clever people over to a principle merely by presenting it in the form of an outrageous paradox.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times. — 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
