If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. — 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
People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas!… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it. — 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
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros! — 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
I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now… — 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
