That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors. — 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
There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All that the world needs most today, is combined in the most deductive manner in his art; the three great stimulants of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator –… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the… — 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
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
We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled… — 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
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world,"… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert… — 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
