One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Nihilism is…not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But one thing is the thought, another thing is the deed, and another thing is the idea of the deed. The wheel… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action… — 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