What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which… — 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 sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
